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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 15h

1777: Nectarines are delicate to the last.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1777: Distant thunder in the night. House martins abound.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1777: Thunder in the night with an heavy shower. Swallows about.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

1777: Distant lightening. We had but little rain, only the skirts of the storm. The dry weather, which was of infinite service to the country after so wet a summer, might fairly be said to last eight weeks: three of which had no rain at all, & much sun-shine. Some of the store-wethers on this...

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1777: Peaches & Nect: are still delicate.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1777: The walks begin to be strewed with leaves. Vivid Northern Aurora.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1777: Cold air, sun, bright day, heavy clouds, stars.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1777: Peaches, & Nectarines now very fine.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1777: Little corn abroad: hop-picking almost finished. Grapes turn apace.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

1777: Selborne. Some corn abroad: a vast burden of straw, & many ricks.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

1777: Chilgrove. Ring-ousels on the downs on their autumnal visit. Lapwings about on the downs attended by starlings; few stone-curlews. Sweet Italian skies. The foliage of the beeches remarkably decayed & rusty.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

1777: Findon. Deep, wet fog. Sweet day.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1777: The sky this evening, being what they call a mackerel sky, was most beautiful, & much admired in many parts of the country. Italian skies! As the beautiful mackerel-sky was remarked & admired at Ringmer near Lewes, London, & Selborne at the same time; it is a plain proof that those fleecy...

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1777: Rooks frequent their nest-trees. Much Gossamer on the pastures and stubbles.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1777: Young martins still in their nests. Wagtails chase swallows.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

1777: Black cluster-grapes begin to turn colur. A tremendous, & awful earthquake at Manchester, & the district round. The earthquake happened a little before eleven o' the clock in the forenoon, when many of the inhabitants were assembled at their respective places of worship.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

1777: Roads very dusty. Timothy the tortoise weighed six pounds 3 quarters, 2 oun: & an half: so is not at all encreased in weight since this time last Year. The scales were not very exact.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

1777: The curious migration of cross-bills, which comes often to the pine-plantations round this house, still continues. These birds are foreign, & not known to breed in the kingdom. They appear first in July.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

1777: Mrs Snooke's tortoise devours kidney-beans & cucumbers in a most voracious manner: swallows it's food almost whole.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

1777: One bank-martin among the other hirundines; dips frequently. Fly-catcher still remains.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

1777: Fern-owls haunts Mrs. Snooke's orchard in the autumn.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

1777: Vast fog, grey, sweet afternoon, white creeping fog.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

1777: Swallows & house-martins dip much in ponds. Vast Northern Aurora.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

1777: Ringmer. Wheatears (birds) continue to be taken: are esteemed an elegant dish. Horse-ants travel home to their nests laden with flies, which they have caught; & the aureliae of small ants, which they seize by violence.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

1777: Dark with spitting rain, spitting rain.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

1777: The working-wasps are very small, perhaps half starved in their larva-state for want of pears, plums, &c.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

1777: Swallows still bring out their young. Much wheat ricked.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

1777: Cold, white dew, sun, brisk air, clouds about, sun breaks out. Destroyed a small wasp's-nest: the combs were few, but full of young. Hops come on very fast. Much wheat housed: barley housed.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

1777: Til now the whole month of Aug: has been dry and pleasant. The evenings begin to feel chilly.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

1777: Finished tiling the new parlor in good dry condition just before the rain came. The wall & timbers will be in much better order for this circumstance. Wheat-harvest interrupted. The pair of martins brought-out all their young. Aug: 26: they still roost in the nest. The nest was begun June...

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

1777: Some few wasps. Much wheat housed.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

1777: No wasps: & if there were, there is no fruit for them. Young swallows cluster on chimneys.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

1777: The large winged female-ants, after they have wandered from their nests, lose their wings & settle new colonies: are in their flying state food for birds, particulary hirundines.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

1777: Young swallows & martins swarm. A spotted water-hen shot in the forest.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

1777: The hop-bloom begins for form into hops: several gardens promise well.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

1777: Grapes swell. Wheat dries well.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

1777: Wheat begins to be housed in fine order. Fern-owl chatters.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

1777: Apricots ripen. No swift was seen after Aug: 14: so punctual are they in their migrations, or retreat! The latest swift I ever saw was only once on Aug. 21, but they often withdraw by the 10.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

1777: No swifts. Men begin to put their wheat in shock.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

1777: Pease are housed. Wheat harvest is general. No swifts: swifts seem to be gone.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

1777: White butter-flies settle on wet mud in crowds. No swift.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

1777: No swift. Some wheat in shock.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

1777: Male & female ants come forth & migrate in vast troops: every ant-hill is in strange commotion & hurry. No swift. The pair of martins which began to build on June 21 brought-out their brood this day in part: the rest remain in the nest Aug: 17.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

1777: Sweet harvest-weather. Wheat turns colour very fast. Brisk gale. One swift.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

1777: No swifts. One swift, the last. The swifts went away this year just as the beautiful weather began.

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