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Lack of wildlife?
We've been surprised that there is so little visible wildlife here in
Sussex and Kent. Despite visiting two well-stocked gardens yesterday and staying somewhere with quite a large, well-planted and treed garden, we've seen few birds or bees and exactly one butterfly. Is this down to this being mainly an arable area and past (or even present?) crop spraying, we wonder? -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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Lack of wildlife?
We've been surprised that there is so little visible wildlife here in
Sussex and Kent. Despite visiting two well-stocked gardens yesterday and staying somewhere with quite a large, well-planted and treed garden, we've seen few birds or bees and exactly one butterfly. Is this down to this being mainly an arable area and past (or even present?) crop spraying, we wonder? They have all migrated to North Yorkshire, or it seems that way in my garden at present. Mike |
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Lack of wildlife?
On 25/06/2014 10:11, Muddymike wrote:
We've been surprised that there is so little visible wildlife here in Sussex and Kent. Despite visiting two well-stocked gardens yesterday and staying somewhere with quite a large, well-planted and treed garden, we've seen few birds or bees and exactly one butterfly. Is this down to this being mainly an arable area and past (or even present?) crop spraying, we wonder? They have all migrated to North Yorkshire, or it seems that way in my garden at present. Still some wildlife around in Norfolk gardens too. Unless we're a stopping off point on the way to Yorkshire! We're also in an arable area Mike, where crops are sprayed just beyond our back garden fence (wheat this year), but have been commenting here that small tortoiseshells are thankfully much more numerous in the last week or two than in recent summers, and the usual garden birds still seem to be around. I counted seven blackbirds all after the ripening berries in an Amelanchier the other morning, and we have a several young ones running around the place today. I think they may be the culprits who've been pecking around in my pots on the patio, scattering labels and compost everywhere and making an unholy mess. We're also getting a few more greenfinches again now, after a few years of almost none, so hopefully they'll build back up in numbers again. And Skylarks have been singing right over the field behind us for the first time in quite a few years, which is lovely. Farmers are beginning to leave uncropped/ untreated patches for ground-nesters, I hear. Still no cuckoos though. I've been finding trails of hedgehog poop here and there on the lawn some mornings as well, so things don't seem too bad in our little bit of the world. -- Sue |
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