OPEN-AIR DIARY 



AUGUST 



DATE 



1 Tortoiseshell butterflies come to the recurved 



stonecrop flowers. Mowing oats. Thatch- 

 ing the haystacks. 



2 Flowers of gipsywort. New leaves on the oak. 



3 Pea-field ploughed. 



4 Flowers erf small teazle, tansy, yellow iris 4 



5 Wormwood, narrow-leaved water-parsnip 



flowers. Many wheatears on the downs. 



6 Reaping wheat. Flowers of corn parsley, 



ivy-leaved sowbread, forget-me-not. 



7 Comma butterflies appear. 



8 Large tortoiseshell butterflies appear. Sep- 



tember thorn moth. 



10 Ploughing fallow for autumn wheat. Pied 



wagtails wandering in flocks of twelve or so. 



11 Young linnets in small flocks. 



12 Marbled green moth, marbled beauty. 



Flowers of deadly nightshade, henbane. 

 Marshes meadow pipits in flocks ; downs 

 wheatears in flocks. 



13 Linnets at thistledown. Flowers of hairy 



mint, white horehound, Turk's cap lily. 



14 Flowers and red and green berries of woody 



nightshade together ; green berries and 

 flowers of white bryony, too. Herb Robert 

 and silverweed flowers. 



15 Wall butterflies appear. Flowers of marsh- 



mallow, arrow-head reed. 



1 6 Flowers of red campion, ragwort, hawkweeds, 



herb Robert, honeysuckle, buttercup, hare- 

 bell, thyme, mouse-ear chickweed, meadow- 

 sweet, succory, marguerite, wild mint, 

 agrimony, St. John's wort, convolvulus, 

 yarrow, wood betony, figwort, scabiouses, 

 gorse. 



17 Hedge woundwort, willow-herb, balm and 



yellow horned poppy flowers. Speckled 

 wood butterflies appear. Lychnis moth. 



DATE 



18 Young thrushes, missel-thrushes and robins 



singing. Butterflies on the chalk peacock, 

 painted lady, brimstone, grayling, chalk- 

 hill, Adonis and common blue, argus, 

 fritillaries, small coppers, with burnet 

 moths. Flowers of pennywort, marsh 

 pennywort. 



19 Clouded yellow butterflies appear. Yellow- 



hammers in flocks. Flowers of marsh 

 speedwell, broad-leaved helleborine, pyra- 

 midal orchis. Carting oats. 



20 Pale oak eggar moth. Flowers of golden 



saxifrage, grass of Parnassus, lesser dodder, 

 common speedwell, broom rape, vervain, 

 mountain thyme, wild basil. 



2 1 Swifts gone. Flowers of thyme-leaved speed- 



well, calamint. 



23 Carting wheat. Second brood of swallows 



hatched. 



24 Hazel-nuts ripe. Second brood of house- 



martins hatched. Creeping cinquefoil. 



25 Flowers of tormentil, trailing tormentil, great 



burdock. 



26 Mowing the aftermath. Flowers of agrimony, 



salad burnet, marsh ragwort. 



27 Flowers of silverweed, field scorpion grass, 



viper's bugloss. 



28 Flowers of creeping water scorpion grass, 



gromwell, dwarf red rattle. 



29 Flowers of raspberry, bramble, avens, oxeye 



daisy, wild chamomile. 



30 Threshing. 



31 Linnets in small bands. Wheatears and 



wagtails resorting to the coast. Chiff- 

 chaff sings. 



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