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38.)

7.3.50, cont.

In afternoon took 2.5 bus to Old Bawn & walked up to lower dam in Glenasmole, & up scarp on E. side of reservoir, where sat in sun for over an hour above 1st & near 2nd coomb.  Salix (? caprea) on roadside below Bohernabreena R.C. Chapel (♂︎) in flower & the only one seen out, though many others nearly out.  Coltsfoot out in many places.  Veronica hederaefolia in flower along wall, just above where old & new road part on way from Old Bawn & opposite pool between new road & R. Dodder.  Primroses out in hazel scrub, but saw no Violet out.  Saw one Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly on lower dam.  While sitting in sun above 1st coomb saw a ♀︎ Bombus lucorum several times visit flowers of Ulex europaeus, but it never stayed long & probably only did so because no other flowers available & no Salix near here yet in flower.  A few daisies & dandelion about the only other flowers seen at this spot.  Several red ♀︎ cones seen on larch at S. end of upper dam, but Blackthorn not nearly in flower.  Frog spawn (quite old) in swamp by avenue below lower lodge.  Returned home by 5.25 bus from Bohernabreena.


39.)

8th March 1950.

Another fine day, but to a large extent cloudy with W. breeze & quite different from last few days suggesting a coming change;  still very mild & glass still very high.  In forenoon saw at one time 3♀︎♀︎ Bombus on the ♀︎ Salix in back garden, namely one each of terrestris, lucorum & jonellus, while a second lucorum seen crossing the garden at same moment.  In afternoon we went to Dalkey to call on Mrs. Lilian Porter, now living at Summerfield, Dalkey Avenue, & still very interested in Lichens.


13th March 1950.

Cold, dull, dry.  North breeze in forenoon, east in afternoon.  After a dry week-end & cold frost on nights of 11th & 12th.  No bumble bees seen in garden.  Our Forsythia opened its first flower today, though in other gardens most have been in flower some time.  Viola Reichenbachiana out near Marley Grange.


15th March.

First flower opened on Anemone appenina in front garden.  Red Mossy Saxifrage near front gate nearly out.


18th (Sat.) March.

Heavy rain all day on approach of a cold front.  I fear all the Bumble Bees seen earlier in the month must be now dead, as none seen in garden recently, even during sunny spells when Honey Bees seen on ♀︎ Salix.