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258.) 25th - 29th Feb. 1952. 25th Feb. A lovely sunny day! In afternoon I rode (alone) to Phoenix Park on bike, & returned via Knockmaroon, Chapelizod, Killeen & the Greenhill. 26th took 2.5 bus to Old Bawn & walked via Orlagh College & Woodtown up to military road & back to Ballyboden. 27th. In afternoon took 54 bus and walked via Willington Ho. to Hillcrest for eggs & back to Rathfarnham bus. 28th. Went by 2.10 bus to Greystones to see Una Palmer & arrange what John Palmer's book & shells: returned by 5.25 bus & home via 18 bus at 6.35. Some drizzle in Dublin in afternoon - the first sign of rain for some time. 29th. In afternoon went by 47 bus to Ballyboden & walked up military road & down Woodtown hill & back to Firhouse & Charleville Ho. where caught 49 bus home. First purple Crocus & the Benevenagh small-flowered Sax. oppositifolia in flower in front garden. Daphne blaggiana in back garden with a few flowers just opening. Two squashed frogs seen above Ballyboden. 1st March 1952. Dully, very mild & falling glass. In afternoon walked to Rathfarnham Bridge, down Dodder to park & home. 2nd & 3rd March 1952. Low glass, very mild, much sun! On 3rd Chionodoxa in front garden & Sax. opp. from Benevenagh in back garden in flower. Sax. apiculata in front W. border virtually out. 259.) 4th - 8th March 1952. Very mild, much rain or drizzle till 7th; 8th very fine & sunny. Prunus sp. with brown leaves now nearly all with flowers; 1st flower seen on Forsythia in Dartry Rd. on 4th; many Almonds out by 7th including that in Kenilworth Park; all Snowdon Sax. opp. now in flower. Alan Mitchell reported Peacock Butterfly & large ♀︎ Bombus with tawny tail (almost certainly B. terrestris) in T.C.D. Bot. Gardens on 4th, where much hot sun (before rain!); on 6th. Daisy saw our frog in garden for 1st time this spring & on 7th I fed all the snails for 1st time. 8th March 1952. MEMO. Found 2 small Aphidius under Monoctonus caricis & transferred them to Aph. cf. fumatus Hal. They are from Athdown, WI., (1) 13.8.1944 & Tipperary, ST., 24.5.1945. 9th March 1952. A beautiful day, with a few showers about: mainly very hot sun & slight SW-W wind. Took 9.55 bus to Brittas Park, where on previous Sunday J.P. Brunker had reported 11 Whooper Swans but only the 2 Mute Swans there today. Saw a small flock of birds (about 8 to 12) of what I took to be Sandpipers & the fields near Brittas full of Fieldfares & Starlings. Walked from Brittas to Ballinsacorney Gap & thence via Bohernabreena to catch 1.10 bus at Old Bawn & so home. Much Coltsfoot in flower by roadside to 1,000 ft. alt. Hundreds of frogs in channel by Brittas Ponds & elsewhere. The fern Ceterach officinatus [[officinarum]] in dry wall of Silurian slate stones 1/4 mile SE of Ballinsascorney Gap. Honey Bee & Drone Fly seen & on return home a Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly in Front Garden.