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5th February 1949. A beautifully sunny day, after slight frost, but SE. wind cold & blustery at times, though less in afternoon,  when walked to Dartry & up R. Dodder to watergate of Rathfarnham Castle where on N. bank of river watched many Siskin feeding on seeds of Alder (as reported previously by J.P. Brunker!); then back through new park to Orwell Road & so home. On way home saw a Flowering Currant bush in Winton Av. with some flowers open & by Dodder just below the weir below Orwell Bridge saw the first flower on Laurel. Brown leaves also now on the early Prunus in Highfield Rd., as well as many flowers, but Almonds there not even with pink buds showing & that in Kenilworth Park the only one seen in flower.  

Glass falling during day & road damp at 11 P.M., though stars all out. Temperature evidently rising. 

6th Feb. 1949. Dull with wet roads after some slight drizzle during night, wind SE. & very gloomy at 9 A.M. though clouds SW. In afternoon walked from Rathfarnham to Templeogue Bridge & home via Willington House, Crumlin Cross & 54 bus. First flower on Coltsfoot on roadside W. of Templeogue Bridge, exactly on time!

7th & 8th Feb. Stormy with much rain & wind, mainly SE. veering west in afternoon of 8th, when heavy hail & more shower fell about 3 P.M.

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9th Feb. 1949. Snow on hills, but all gone under 2,000 ft. in afternoon. Nearly all sunny, but strong SW-W. wind & rising glass, showing over hills in afternoon & shower in evening. Walked from 54 bus up Whitehall Rd. to Willington Ho. & back to Rathfarnham by Templeogue Bridge & Butterfield Lane. Three flowers now out on Coltsfoot near former place.

In front garden first flower on Saxifraga apiculata nodding & open. Catkins in buds on [[female]] Salix cinerea in back garden swelling visibly last few days!

10th. A beautiful forenoon, but afternoon nearly all dull when we rode on bikes to Old Bawn & then by Marlfield to Jobstown & home via Tallaght. Stitchwort, rose & honeysuckle leaf-buds all sprouting in ditches. 

11th Once more a beautiful forenoon but afternoon mainly dull, when went on bikes to Drimna via Wappington Cross & then behind Drimna Castle to Grand Canal & Killeen, then across canal & railway & round back by Clondalkin, & so home. This ground around Drimnagh & R. Cammac [[Camac]] now nearly all built over or destroyed, though in one place on steep bank w/ the river just E. of the new bye-pass on the Dublin - Naas road there is a large patch of scrub still surviving. Catkins on one branch of [[female]] Salix cinerea in back garden actually "open" & stigmas protruding.

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