Foxes, Badgers, Rats and Rabbits

[GarethM]

4 minutes ago, AHPP said:

I snort laughed. 

Banjo music as you walk in?

[AHPP]

2 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Banjo music as you walk in?

 A family wedding. 

[GarethM]

12 minutes ago, AHPP said:

 A family wedding. 

I guess brides seating and grooms seating is much easier when everyone is already interrelated many times over 

[Macpherson]

On 10/04/2023 at 16:34, daltontrees said:

It's all rather depressing. There's one small consolation and that is that I have noticed less midges in suburbia than used to be. Can't stand midges, they drive me nearly out off my mind.  Just looking for a positive...

 

Aye, you're not alone there I've spent half my life working in the wee buggers and enduring that true pestilence certainly pushed me over the edge on many occasions, and while they have been gradually on the decline over the last decades, as in for example compared to as it used to be, walking out of a door into a miserable thickness of them to go to work or do some gardening or sit round the barbie.. they are nowhere near as bad as 30 or 40 years ago.... BUT, even just a few can spoil any outdoor activity !!

 

The thing is that in recent times I've occasionally found myself out gardening in a damp breathless summer evening wearing only shorts and a vest with no need for midgie ointment... previously unheard of, so you have to ask wtf's going on with nature.

In the west highlands if the midge disappears by the billion surely that must be akin to plankton vanishing from the sea in terms of ' our fluid environments '

 

Certainly the midge may be the most noticeable reduction but there are very few moths and other flying bugs compared to yesteryear and of course there are the hundreds of other species that most folk don't notice at all so wouldn't notice a decline.

 

So if the very bottom of the food chain is becoming endangered due to somethings ' unknown ' it should not be unexpected if other species populations start to crash in an exponential fashion.... will anyone notice or care ?

Are other folk noticing similar in different areas ? that would be interesting to know, although you'd probably need to be of a certain age at least to be able to judge changes over the decades.

 

Cheers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Billhook]

On 10/04/2023 at 16:43, AHPP said:

I snort laughed. 

I don't geddit!

[sime42]

Agree with all that, except for the "unknown" sentiment. The cause of all this is human activity, the specifics of which have been well documented in recent years.

 

I think everyone will start noticing pretty soon, once this mass extinction properly begins to gather pace. Even the most nature indifferent,  detached, TikTok gazing Gen-Xer.

 

 

[Macpherson]

15 hours ago, sime42 said:

Agree with all that, except for the "unknown" sentiment. The cause of all this is human activity, the specifics of which have been well documented in recent years.

 

I think everyone will start noticing pretty soon, once this mass extinction properly begins to gather pace. Even the most nature indifferent,  detached, TikTok gazing Gen-Xer.

 

 

 

' unknown ' was written this way to denote sarcasm, 👍

[Stubby]

On 03/04/2023 at 09:01, Stere said:

Least Puffins have increased recently.

 

No idea why must be more food or less rats?

 

 

 

 

More sand eels ?

[sime42]

Phew. I thought we may have been straying into climate change denial territory. ,😉

2 hours ago, Macpherson said:

 

' unknown ' was written this way to denote sarcasm, 👍

 

[sandspider]

Still see regular handful of foxes round me. One fat grey squirrel. Several sets of buzzards, the odd red kite. Barely seen a rabbit here in the 6 or so years we've been here. Never seen a hedgehog, which surprises me as we have lots of wild ground, woodland etc. around. I even made a hedgehog house.

Already a few butterflies, bumblebees and wasps this year, when the sun comes out. Handfuls of moths on the doors at night.