Re: Cold early Spring



Within the last 10 years we have seen significant changes in our bird
populations: starlings, sparrows and thrushes were once very common,
though not rare now but their numbers have declined dramatically. The
causes for this are not fully understood but fingers are being pointed in
the direction of habitat loss and intensive farming practices for the
starlings and thrushes. The decline of the sparrow is harder to pin down,
rural sparrow populations seem to be recovering but the sparrow is now
absent from some of our cities where once they were extremely common.

So cold winter weather would cause yet more hardship to our already
depleted and struggling wildlife.
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Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk
Nick,

I agree with you about the starlings and thrushes, but the
reason why you haven't seen so many sparrows is because
we have them all here, the noisy critters, teasing our Border
Collie with low fly passes :) At least they chuck out bits of
moss from the guttering... I'm sure they take aim at the dog!

Back on topic, it feels very mild in spite of the force 5 wind,
as the temp continues to climb through the evening. Now
at +10.7C.

Nigel (Romsey, Hampshire)




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