Where's all the wildlife gone?

[petercb]

Noticing a distinct lack of wildlife for a little while. Little or no roadkill these days and not much sign of badgers, pheasants, rabbits, hares etc in the wood or on the pastures. Insect life also noticably absent haven't had to debug my windscreen at all this summer. I know the dry and hot weather will have decimated a lot of creatures but was notable even before that. I'm in East Northants but same is true in North Bedfordshire and West Cambridgeshire. Anyone finding the same?

[Stubby]

1 hour ago, petercb said:

Noticing a distinct lack of wildlife for a little while. Little or no roadkill these days and not much sign of badgers, pheasants, rabbits, hares etc in the wood or on the pastures. Insect life also noticably absent haven't had to debug my windscreen at all this summer. I know the dry and hot weather will have decimated a lot of creatures but was notable even before that. I'm in East Northants but same is true in North Bedfordshire and West Cambridgeshire. Anyone finding the same?

Nope . Not here . Bug splats a plenty on the screen . A few squashed badgers , Deer in the form of Fallow , Roe and Munties . Pheasants and Partridge just starting to appear as the Keepers get their birds but have seen a few " wildies " who are sleeker and shiny with longer tails for a given age . Util the river dried up ( as it does every year )  We had Herons , Egrets and Mallard . Not seen any Shell ducks this year . Oh West Sussex by the way .

Edited September 1, 2022 by Stubby

[Woodworks]

Short on badgers and bunnies down here. Some bug splatter and a good year for butterflies in our neck of the woods. Even had a regular visits from a  hedgehog in our garden which is a first. A few dear but maybe less than normal. We did pick up rain at times when others didn't so might account for our good fortune. 

[spuddog0507]

Up here in Lancashire we are doing OK, seen a few Roe deer all with 2 young except one that only had one, Badger activity seems the norm, Rabbits seem to be on the increase at present after getting RHD a few years back and near on wiping them out, Swallows seem to of had a bumper year with loads of young ones about down at my yard, Greylag,s from some local gravel pits have had a massive year and in a recent chat with a fellow shooter we decided last years numbers where around 7-8000 birds but will be some where around the 20,000 mark this year, crops have done well with one farm we shoot on getting 4.92 tonne of wheat per acre with 3 tonne of straw along side that, maize is about 8ft high but some one told me a few wk back that he had been down south and maize was about 2ft high, we have been lucky here with rain now n then as others have had zero rain fall,