Anyone still like Labour?

[Anno]

I am an ecological surveyor as well as an Arb and over 40 years I have done extensive work in the Carp Pond and thatched cottage land of Marple, if you have not noticed a decrease in local biodiversity you are as thick as shit.But like on most post on here you talk absolute shite, so bang you go back on ignore mode with Action man / Rambo and his deluded bullshit...

facts have no relevance on here, you are never more than one post from an idiot.

[GarethM]

2 minutes ago, Anno said:

I am an ecological surveyor as well as an Arb and over 40 years I have done extensive work in the Carp Pond and thatched cottage land of Marple, if you have not noticed a decrease in local biodiversity you are as thick as shit.But like on most post on here you talk absolute shite, so bang you go back on ignore mode with Action man / Rambo and his deluded bullshit...

facts have no relevance on here, you are never more than one post from an idiot.

And good for you, believe whatever you wish.

 

Drum up that business then, one day that sandwich board of doom mongering will be your downfall when people realise it's a hyped crock of sh1t.

[Johnsond]

7 hours ago, Anno said:

I am an ecological surveyor as well as an Arb and over 40 years I have done extensive work in the Carp Pond and thatched cottage land of Marple, if you have not noticed a decrease in local biodiversity you are as thick as shit.But like on most post on here you talk absolute shite, so bang you go back on ignore mode with Action man / Rambo and his deluded bullshit...

facts have no relevance on here, you are never more than one post from an idiot.

Teddies out the pram, last word at all costs moral high ground BS. 

[sime42]

Teddies out the pram? Last word at all costs? Ummmmmm, sounds awfully familiar.

[sime42]

9 hours ago, Yournamehere said:

You do insects , I'll do the birds.

Decline in UK bird pops

I'll leave that open, pick whatever source you like.

But re insects and motorbikes: used to have to stop and wipe down jacket and visor after a long trip: not any more.

Used to say you knew when a motorcyclist had had an enjoyable trip by the number of insects on his teeth!

Not any more.

 

As to birdlife decline -  for many species numbers have plummeted by up to 90%: we used to see flocks of yellow hammers and linnets, they would lift and fly ahead of us as we walked down a path or ride; now we may see one or two. They have become a rarity, a highlight of a day out. We used to stop working and listen to the nightingales in the middle of the morning; when I used to go fishing until 11pm or midnight I could hear five or six different nightingales from different parts of the surrounding woodland: not any more, I haven't now heard a nightingale for years and years. Even where I live in a small town (but surrounded by countryside) I used to be woken up by a deafening dawn chorus: it would rise and fall, wave after wave louder and quieter as the songs all mixed in together; sometimes I would get up and sit by the open window for five minutes before having to close it if I was going to get that extra hour's sleep. Over the last few years it has declined and lessened until this year - just last week in fact - I woke up - window wide open - nothing! Silence. A single blackbird giving it that twin burst of four notes (there used to be a dozen from all points and distances mixed in with all the other bird song) and a blackcap in the hawthorn outside the window was all that was singing to me.

 

Yes we see more birds of prey now: buzzards ravens and kites are nearly commonplace but that is because of the cessation of human persecution: does not mean that UK bird populations are not declining. It is ridiculous - tantamount to flat-earthism to claim otherwise. There's any number of credible sources on that link have a look before you comment further.

 

And just to make it easy: the first line off the first source: (RSPB) 

"Are UK birds in decline?

Yes. There has been a serious decline in the numbers of many birds,"

 

Your ball.

 

Thanks for that, but I kind of wish I hadn't read it. Depressing, sad. I remember being woken by the dawn chorus, (and a great way it was to be woken too), it's not happened in years now. 

 

 

[Stubby]

6 minutes ago, sime42 said:

 

Thanks for that, but I kind of wish I hadn't read it. Depressing, sad. I remember being woken by the dawn chorus, (and a great way it was to be woken too), it's not happened in years now. 

 

 

We still get a dawn chorus and even song .

[sime42]

Yeah, we do too. They're at it out there right now. Mainly just Blackbirds and Robins though, and nothing like the volume it used to be, specially not in the mornings.

 

 

[sime42]

I reckon Blackbirds and Robins will be the last to disappear, along with the Corvids. The Cockroaches of bird life. Not that I've anything against them, it's always nice when a Robin comes along to keep you company outside.

[PeteB]

I see that a law is in place to rid the Police of any wrong doers totally. Perhaps the same law should be in place for those in public office? We may end up with a load of MP'S being let go.

[devon TWiG]

2 minutes ago, PeteB said:

I see that a law is in place to rid the Police of any wrong doers totally. Perhaps the same law should be in place for those in public office? We may end up with a load of MP'S being let go.

and should that be applied to the whole of society ???