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1st March 1945. 
All sunny, but colder after depression at night; wind NW. veering towards N. in afternoon; moderate; sun quite hot.

At 6:30 P.M. saw, first, 1♀︎ Bombus lucorum on ♀︎ Salix in back garden & later this accompanied by a ♀︎ B. jonellus.  The B. lucorum still on the catkin at 7.10 (Summer time!) when I came into house, as light was falling & quite cold.

7th March 1945.   
Rode in afternoon to Esker to get eggs & saw a few early flowers on Blackthorn between the Green Hills & the Dublin-Naas Road.  Hawthorn hedges in leaf in several places. Horse Chestnut leaf-buds open in Leinster Rd, Rathmines & many signs of spring.

2nd-9th March 1945.
The week has been remarkably mild & fine, though not often sunny, but this when out, as on aft. of 7th., very hot.  George arrived from France on evening of 2nd & left for Holland on morning of 10th, on his first leave since he got his commission in the construction corps of the R.A.F.  One branch of earliest Mediterranean Heath not dead & this now with flowers open.


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10th March 1945.
Flower spikes on Carex stricta & C. montana in back garden.  Also first flower on Viola odorata there!

12th March 1945. 
White currant at motor-house door & Anemone appenina in front garden by path to gate in flower.  Catkins on ♂︎ Salix by tub in back garden out.

14th March 1945. 
Red Mossy Saxifrage by path to front gate nearly in flower.

16th March 1945. 
Swan ♀︎ on Grand Canal above Portobello Bridge sitting on this date & possibly sitting the previous day but not observed, though certainly not sitting on 14th.

17th March 1945. 
A most perfect day: all sunny, with gentle, cool, fresh, westerly breeze.  On duty in museum.  At 1:45 saw a ♀︎ Bombus terrestris on flower of Flowering Currant in back garden: it appeared a bit faded & therefore could have been the ♀︎ seen first on 21st Feb.; but of course there is no proof of this.  Fronds of Osmunda up & one nearly a foot high on old plant. Green shoots on Euphorbia hiberna about three inches high.

18th March 1945. 
Saw many pears & plums in flower about Rathfarnham & The Narrow Walls.  Korokia in back garden & the first white Mossy Saxifrage (a garden variety!) in flower in front garden.

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