Sparrow Family

It's that time again, except it isn't. This photo is from five years ago. Our feeders were busy with many species of garden and farmland birds but not this year or last year. The feeders are the same, the nesting spots are still there so were are the birds? Maybe another question; where are the insects? We have more variety of wild flowers supposed to attract insects in our garden but where are they? Maybe it is true, monocultures sustained by nitrate rich fertilisers and use of strong insecticides, together with hydrocarbon derived pollution are sterilising the countryside. Constant expansion and building on the green spaces are choking the pollinators. All I know is as as a child I remember lots of butterflies, moths, grasshoppers, wasps, bees, blow flies and the list goes on. Now I see a single bumble bee and it's an event.

What are we doing to our world?

 

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