Being a bird aware person and a farmer I was well aware of the effect of silage harvesters on ground nesting birds. Also frogs and hedgehogs are in danger. . It was an excellent and well balanced documentary. Farmers are forced to except lower and lower farm gate prices for their produce, to satisfy city people and supermarkets low price policy. This forces farmers into larger and larger monoculture farming systems. This is having an enormous cost on biodiversity. Most farmers would love to see wild life return to their fields.
In our efforts to protect crops from pests, we have poisoned our surrounding to a degree where food chains are breaking down.. This is just the beginning..
@@raclark2730 Unfortunately its not that easy .. lots of endemic species and local variants of species (of both plants and insects) have been lost already.. .. and the "anyone can contribute" part very often results in foreign plant species and variants (seeds) being used thereby actually worsening things..
@@jimbøb-i9q Yes that is correct you must use local species from the local gene pool. That only requires research and or consultation with people that have local knowledge. Indeed many locations have established groups doing such work that anyone can volunteer for. This also opens up participation for people who do not have a space for growing. It is that easy. Do you want to help birds and insects or not.
It's a global phenomenon. In rural India I used to see Indian rollers, Red avadavat, Hoopoes etc on regular basis but nowadays thanks to overuse of pesticides and decrease in traditional farming methods their numbers are in steep decline 😞
I live in the upper northeast in the United States where every summer I take care of a large flower garden. Birds here are not only scarce but so are pollinators. This summer I saw three honeybees, one bumblebee and one butterfly. The farmers apply tons of herbicides, pesticides and fungicides on fields, people also liberally use sprays outside so no wonder the birds and pollinators are gone. I wonder what we will be eating before long.
On my organic farm in devon we have many wild birds, goldfinch, sky larks, thrushes, blackbirds and winter visitors redwing. We only cut for hay at the end of September. Have full wide mature, unflayed hedgerows and shoot squirels to protect young birds and their eggs, plus tree damage reduction and they eat well.
Would you be prepared to pay double for your food because thats what it would mean or you farm organically as I do with a smaller market for more expensive production and a reduction in quantity. With the building on farm land a rediculous new regs about bio-diversity and carbon offset, farms are dumping grounds for building site offsets and as a result our food production land is reduced two fold.
For about a year now I have been recording the activity in the Dove nest in the treetops across from my apartment balcony. Six pairs of chicks were raised there. Apparently only two chicks fell from the nest and died before they could learn to fly. All the others grew up and went off to live their Dove lives. Now the nest is empty, but it will soon be repaired again and my work of recording the reproductive development of my winged neighbors will continue. Why do I do this? Just for fun. And people like the photos and short videos too.
I am speechless😢 human has become threat for nature, birds and animals, my heart cries by seeing the damages caused by the greed of humans, awareness is extremely important to save this beautiful planet. Thanks for this eye opening documentary 🙏
I've noticed a lot of failed nests this year and severe lack of insects and no bees. I've also noticed the cloud seeding continuously all year , sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. Food for thought
@barryodowd6123 climate change is a constant. Cloud seeding destroys the environment. Research cloud seeding in the Vietnam war and the studies done by the US after its use. The question is why destroy an environment on purpose. The uk doesn't need help with rain. ???
Britain's Birds have little chance in the 21st Century....12 Million Cats...40 Million vehicles...habitat loss...insect decline etc. By the end of this Century, most Birds that were very common in Britain when I was a kid in the '50s/'60s will be a rarity. 😔
❤❤❤ Very Beautiful and Informative Video. The ecology must be protected. Birds, Butterflies, Insects and Honey Bees etc play an extremely important role in our lives and they all need to be protected and taken care of.
Cats and HAWKS. I'm located in an urban area along Lake Erie. There are numerous Coopers Hawks here, more and more every year, plus the red taileds and pigeon hawks. But each Coopers will snatch and consume 3-4 songbirds A DAY..We have 3 Coopers just running a 2 block area, including my yard. And they stay all winter here..and peck off the tired and hungry migratories, as well. They DO NOT bother with the house sparrows, preferring our diminishing species. HAWKS, WINDOWS, NIGHTTIME LIGHTING, and YOUR WELL FED CAT out for kicks. That's over 3,000 songbirds, woodpeckers, etc, per year..just around my yard, from 3 of the HAWKS alone. (They spitefully use our tree for feasting, so I'm well aware of their over population and damage)
I get a tiny hint of misunderstood speciesism😅, hawks population is regulated by available bird population and part of natural ecosystem, but cats I agree do have a very bad impact on populations, and are non native . Farm practices here locally reduce amount of wildflowers with roundup, with hedgerow edge spayed too .Fields that once had many species per meter now have one or two grass species that are planted. Mono culture fields forests etc ,it's sickening to me as a hunter to see the land demise in twenty years here in Ireland 🇮🇪
I work in Tesco Distribution centre in Bathgate, Scotland I was going home, missed my bus. just thought to cut my travelling time and went on the field next to the warehouse. Lapwing chick just came from no where and her mums, dads started to attack. common buzzard is everywhere, I love them. If you will go round loch Leven in October, you will meet thousands and thousands of birds. Will watch now. thanks for the video!!
Birds eat insects as well as carrion & berries. Have you noticed the lack of insects on car registration plates here in the uk.. could it be pesticides being overused & having a drastic effect on them. The countryside is also being concreted over as farmers sell off the land..
Funny, here in Kathmandu farm birds dont seem to be decreasing, if anything they're increasing. Especially true, in my opinion, with the cattle egret, black kite, common pigeon, blue throat barbet, jungle myna, common myna, house crow and even some sorts of munia. None of them are invasive, either. Offcourse some, like the hoopoe, many types of ducks and geese, cranes, storks, some small songbirds, a few gamebirds, vultures, large raptors etc, are becoming increasingly rare. I guess farming techniques habent changed much in the last hundred years around here, unlike in other countries.
Most of those birds on your list are among the few species that thrive in a globalized world heavily altered by man, a bit like rats and cockroaches. They're not an indicator of a healthy environment.
I'm 1.24 in - opening credits. I reckon the answer to this is loss of habitat. The places I used to go to as a kid in the 1970's birdwatching in Industrial South Essex - they've all pretty much gone. There wasn't many of them and there were huge industrial complexes in between , but the bits of marsh, reedbeds, open rough grass areas all now under industrial or urban developments. Gonna watch it now and see what they say...
Eating cereal and drinking soy or almond milk is even worse for the environment, as these come from absolute monocultures. Your best bet is to feed yourself from pasture raised beef and lamb, organic milk and real free range eggs.
I am from Pakistan. When I was young, I used to hear the sounds of chakor(red leg partreg) in the fields. I used to see it fly from the fields early in the morning and go to the mountains. But now it doesn't rain at all. Sometimes it doesn't even happen for 8 months. I went for a walk in the mountains last week. In da whole day I heard only one chirping sound of chakor.. And it is climate change that is approaching the mountain leopard nearer to human setteld areas,there food are declining.Pakistan has been badly affected by climate change.
In the UK we have lost a lot of ground nesting birds like Lapwing, Grey Partridge & Skylark to the rise in fox & badger numbers, And all of this was shown to me with the use of wildlife cameras placed in known nesting areas. Too many foxes that are now being robustly controlled, nothing we can do about the badgers, yet, I hope someone soon see's sense!,
Eating cereal and drinking soy or almond milk is even worse for the environment, as these come from absolute monocultures. Your best bet is to feed yourself from pasture raised beef and lamb, organic milk and real free range eggs.
No insects, no ground nesting birds. Areas without any silage cutting have suffered similar fates so the reduction in the insects must be responsible. In the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s having driven from Dublin to the West of Ireland to fish on our return we would have to wash our windscreen, headlights and number plates from the huge numbers of insect strikes but that is no longer the case. Something happened around the early 00s that resulted in a massive kill off of insects.
In Iowa ? Our Blue Jays are disappearing in our area (EASTERN)along with our cardinals and Doves and way less Robin's returned this last spring from their southern migration. Plus, the geese were way less this spring also coming back from their migration. IT IS THAT HORRID BIRD FLU THAT THE GOVERNMENT ACTS LIKE IT ISN'T AROUND. 😢
Eating cereal and drinking soy or almond milk is even worse for the environment, as these come from absolute monocultures. Your best bet is to feed yourself from pasture raised beef and lamb, organic milk and real free range eggs.
Every day in my garden hawk's are killings song birds,we are living next to open fields and large woodlands and the birds are being decimated by sparrow hawk's. Bird feeders we now call hawk stations and obviously stopped using them.
Grass is actually green and Yellow Wagtails are yellow. Why did the editor choose to lower the saturation so much that almost everything is grey? Is this supposed to give a sad tone to the film?
Twenty years ago a car would be covered in dead insects if you drove during the Spring to Autumn period. Now very few insects. Next the birds go then what comes next?
You didn't pay much attention to this video I suppose. The by far biggest danger is the way agriculture has developed. Don't come up with that false statement. Reality has proven the correct cause.
Here in the UK the latest problem is that we’ve been restricted again on controlling pest bird populations such as magpies and crows and pigeons. I’ve had house sparrows and blue tits and wrens and chiffchaffs round my gaff since I moved here and now barely heard a Robin- just magpies and seagulls. You can thank Chris Packham for that one, pretending he cares about wildlife when he don’t know bugger all about it really
As a farmer here in the UK for over 50 years on a family farm owned since the early 1800s, I see the problem being not only Magpies , Carrion Crows and Pigeon , but also Buzzards, Kites, Hawks, Stoats, Weasels, Foxes ,Rats and most devastating of all Grey Squirrels. What chance has nesting bird? There was a great deal of game shooting in the past, not here but around here and the gamekeepers used to keep a lot of these predators in check. We have not changed our farming much in all that time, we have more hedgerows and Woodland than when I was starting, I have embraced many environmental schemes and created a large lake and half a dozen scrapes. Still have not seen an English Partridge for years and have seen a decline of song birds generally. There is also the terrible recent weather to take into account. This might well have affected the insect world and have a knock on effect for the birds. It is not that simple to just blame farming practice Then there are all the cats and people walking their dogs without a lead thinking they have a right to roam
@@duckpuddles predator populations are determined by prey numbers ,so plenty prey ,and the predators will also increase ,that's an healthy environment.the wipe out of the very basics first the insect base is the start of all our bird decline, when in years have you had to wash your windscreen ,at one time it was covered in bugs.Also soil erosion has dramatically reduced the number of earth worms another important food source for birds, hedgerow destruction ,early cutting in crops ,stubble re ploughing early and the change in farming practises are the big culprits.
@@williampinchers I might add that I have not used an insecticide since the 1970s. there were some very bad effects of DDT that are well recorded as it killed most of the raptors and birds at the top of the food chain. A side effect of this was the sight of many Thrushes, Blackbirds on our lawns, listening for worms as I was growing up in the 1960s. When the hawks recovered in the 1980s there was then the sight of a cloud of feathers in the middle of the lawn after a Sparrow ~Hawk had done its business. Many gardenbirds, Hedge Sparrows ChiffChaff, warblers all now gone due to Squirrel, Crow, Cat , Hawk, car. The insect decline is harder to fathom. We have been vacuuming hundreds of cluster flies in our attics this winter and they live and breed in the soil. Likewise at the lake are swarms of gnats and Dragon flies. I admit there are hardly any on car windscreens but maybe due to improved aerodynamics?
@@williampinchers this meddling with the climate could be another reason for insect decline. ruclips.net/video/PVUOj9eU0xg/видео.htmlsi=famorurjtWA03glO
So dose anybody have any ideas on how to harvest without do that to the deer and birds . You can't imagine what it feels like when these tragedies happen. I've worked no farms all my life in Canada. Believe me .... we feel worse than you aboug it . But in my 50 years of farm work ' which I loved ' nobody had any answer's. I did my best to see into the hay for thousands and thousands of hours in my career.
Eating cereal and drinking soy or almond milk is even worse for the environment, as these come from absolute monocultures. Your best bet is to feed yourself from pasture raised beef and lamb, organic milk and real free range eggs.
Eating cereal and drinking soy or almond milk is even worse for the environment, as these come from absolute monocultures. Your best bet is to feed yourself from pasture raised beef and lamb, organic milk and real free range eggs.
In the morning, the sound of chirping birds is really melodious, like a fairy tale when we live it..
100%
Being a bird aware person and a farmer I was well aware of the effect of silage harvesters on ground nesting birds. Also frogs and hedgehogs are in danger. .
It was an excellent and well balanced documentary. Farmers are forced to except lower and lower farm gate prices for their produce, to satisfy city people and supermarkets low price policy.
This forces farmers into larger and larger monoculture farming systems. This is having an enormous cost on biodiversity. Most farmers would love to see wild life return to their fields.
In our efforts to protect crops from pests, we have poisoned our surrounding to a degree where food chains are breaking down.. This is just the beginning..
It's weedkiller overuse in my haunts here in Ireland, no wildflowers in fields now just grass!
@@jamesbyrne295 No food for insects = no food chain ..
Never to late to start putting botanical diversity back, anyone can can contribute.
@@raclark2730 Unfortunately its not that easy .. lots of endemic species and local variants of species (of both plants and insects) have been lost already.. .. and the "anyone can contribute" part very often results in foreign plant species and variants (seeds) being used thereby actually worsening things..
@@jimbøb-i9q Yes that is correct you must use local species from the local gene pool. That only requires research and or consultation with people that have local knowledge.
Indeed many locations have established groups doing such work that anyone can volunteer for.
This also opens up participation for people who do not have a space for growing.
It is that easy.
Do you want to help birds and insects or not.
It's a global phenomenon. In rural India I used to see Indian rollers, Red avadavat, Hoopoes etc on regular basis but nowadays thanks to overuse of pesticides and decrease in traditional farming methods their numbers are in steep decline 😞
I live in the upper northeast in the United States where every summer I take care of a large flower garden. Birds here are not only scarce but so are pollinators. This summer I saw three honeybees, one bumblebee and one butterfly. The farmers apply tons of herbicides, pesticides and fungicides on fields, people also liberally use sprays outside so no wonder the birds and pollinators are gone. I wonder what we will be eating before long.
Extremely useful documentary and ecology & ecosystems protection advisor documentary... thanks for sharing
Our pleasure!
On my organic farm in devon we have many wild birds, goldfinch, sky larks, thrushes, blackbirds and winter visitors redwing. We only cut for hay at the end of September. Have full wide mature, unflayed hedgerows and shoot squirels to protect young birds and their eggs, plus tree damage reduction and they eat well.
I love about nature, hope the channel will have more videos about this topic, especially about beautiful and charming birds.
More to come!
@@get.factual yes
Europe should go back to its Old times when people lived in harmony with nature
Would you be prepared to pay double for your food because thats what it would mean or you farm organically as I do with a smaller market for more expensive production and a reduction in quantity. With the building on farm land a rediculous new regs about bio-diversity and carbon offset, farms are dumping grounds for building site offsets and as a result our food production land is reduced two fold.
For about a year now I have been recording the activity in the Dove nest in the treetops across from my apartment balcony. Six pairs of chicks were raised there. Apparently only two chicks fell from the nest and died before they could learn to fly. All the others grew up and went off to live their Dove lives. Now the nest is empty, but it will soon be repaired again and my work of recording the reproductive development of my winged neighbors will continue. Why do I do this? Just for fun. And people like the photos and short videos too.
I am speechless😢 human has become threat for nature, birds and animals, my heart cries by seeing the damages caused by the greed of humans, awareness is extremely important to save this beautiful planet. Thanks for this eye opening documentary 🙏
I've noticed a lot of failed nests this year and severe lack of insects and no bees. I've also noticed the cloud seeding continuously all year , sometimes 2 or 3 times a day.
Food for thought
Cloud seeding has nothing to do with climate change ir wildlife decline. Watch the film
@barryodowd6123 climate change is a constant. Cloud seeding destroys the environment. Research cloud seeding in the Vietnam war and the studies done by the US after its use. The question is why destroy an environment on purpose. The uk doesn't need help with rain. ???
Well presented. Very true and a wake up call. It maybe too late though!
Britain's Birds have little chance in the 21st Century....12 Million Cats...40 Million vehicles...habitat loss...insect decline etc. By the end of this Century, most Birds that were very common in Britain when I was a kid in the '50s/'60s will be a rarity. 😔
Lovely documentary really enjoyed watching
Support the Farmers ❤
Cute and beautiful birds,and flowers .
And the insekts ??????Insekts are food to meny birds
😢 Yes
Try spellchecker
@@jamesrooney7902 thanks
❤❤❤ Very Beautiful and Informative Video. The ecology must be protected. Birds, Butterflies, Insects and Honey Bees etc play an extremely important role in our lives and they all need to be protected and taken care of.
Cats and HAWKS. I'm located in an urban area along Lake Erie. There are numerous Coopers Hawks here, more and more every year, plus the red taileds and pigeon hawks. But each Coopers will snatch and consume 3-4 songbirds A DAY..We have 3 Coopers just running a 2 block area, including my yard. And they stay all winter here..and peck off the tired and hungry migratories, as well. They DO NOT bother with the house sparrows, preferring our diminishing species. HAWKS, WINDOWS, NIGHTTIME LIGHTING, and YOUR WELL FED CAT out for kicks. That's over 3,000 songbirds, woodpeckers, etc, per year..just around my yard, from 3 of the HAWKS alone. (They spitefully use our tree for feasting, so I'm well aware of their over population and damage)
Wow, lucky man
Not sure when to use all caps I see.
Ok shakespere Albert
I get a tiny hint of misunderstood speciesism😅, hawks population is regulated by available bird population and part of natural ecosystem, but cats I agree do have a very bad impact on populations, and are non native .
Farm practices here locally reduce amount of wildflowers with roundup, with hedgerow edge spayed too .Fields that once had many species per meter now have one or two grass species that are planted.
Mono culture fields forests etc ,it's sickening to me as a hunter to see the land demise in twenty years here in Ireland 🇮🇪
@@jamesbyrne295 😔
I work in Tesco Distribution centre in Bathgate, Scotland I was going home, missed my bus. just thought to cut my travelling time and went on the field next to the warehouse. Lapwing chick just came from no where and her mums, dads started to attack. common buzzard is everywhere, I love them. If you will go round loch Leven in October, you will meet thousands and thousands of birds. Will watch now. thanks for the video!!
Just look at the state of our rivers, terrible
Read the book Silent Spring.
😞 you can only hate this human society
Is there any positive act that humans contribute to the Planet?
Birds eat insects as well as carrion & berries.
Have you noticed the lack of insects on car registration plates here in the uk.. could it be pesticides being overused & having a drastic effect on them.
The countryside is also being concreted over as farmers sell off the land..
Funny, here in Kathmandu farm birds dont seem to be decreasing, if anything they're increasing. Especially true, in my opinion, with the cattle egret, black kite, common pigeon, blue throat barbet, jungle myna, common myna, house crow and even some sorts of munia. None of them are invasive, either. Offcourse some, like the hoopoe, many types of ducks and geese, cranes, storks, some small songbirds, a few gamebirds, vultures, large raptors etc, are becoming increasingly rare. I guess farming techniques habent changed much in the last hundred years around here, unlike in other countries.
Most of those birds on your list are among the few species that thrive in a globalized world heavily altered by man, a bit like rats and cockroaches. They're not an indicator of a healthy environment.
Live 25 miles from Atlanta. Just this morning I heard sparrows in my bushes hawks are abundant as well as blue jays and an occasional cardinal!
I'm 1.24 in - opening credits. I reckon the answer to this is loss of habitat. The places I used to go to as a kid in the 1970's birdwatching in Industrial South Essex - they've all pretty much gone. There wasn't many of them and there were huge industrial complexes in between , but the bits of marsh, reedbeds, open rough grass areas all now under industrial or urban developments. Gonna watch it now and see what they say...
Makes me want to quit using milk for cooking and cereal. I don't drink it. Those two fawns. JSMH. if I had to choose i know what it'd be.
Eating cereal and drinking soy or almond milk is even worse for the environment, as these come from absolute monocultures. Your best bet is to feed yourself from pasture raised beef and lamb, organic milk and real free range eggs.
Why not developing sensor,,,laser,,,sound tracking technology to remove birds and animals before machine mowing?
Absolutely heart breaking to see the poor fawns die accidentally 😢😢
That's why they put them in the documentary . You have no way of knowing if these animals were killed by machinery
So sad see many years bird in rural area start decline😢😢
I am from Pakistan. When I was young, I used to hear the sounds of chakor(red leg partreg) in the fields. I used to see it fly from the fields early in the morning and go to the mountains. But now it doesn't rain at all. Sometimes it doesn't even happen for 8 months. I went for a walk in the mountains last week. In da whole day I heard only one chirping sound of chakor.. And it is climate change that is approaching the mountain leopard nearer to human setteld areas,there food are declining.Pakistan has been badly affected by climate change.
Serious reduction in birds and butterflies this year. So sad!
No wildlife round the farms here only.foxes badger and carrion and buzzards and you wonder why song birds and grey partridge suffer so badly
In the UK we have lost a lot of ground nesting birds like Lapwing, Grey Partridge & Skylark to the rise in fox & badger numbers, And all of this was shown to me with the use of wildlife cameras placed in known nesting areas. Too many foxes that are now being robustly controlled, nothing we can do about the badgers, yet, I hope someone soon see's sense!,
Birds of prey have been widely reintroduced and doted upon . They're eating everything available
Very true, I used to live in the Great Sahara, now I live in the Green Sahara
Eating cereal and drinking soy or almond milk is even worse for the environment, as these come from absolute monocultures. Your best bet is to feed yourself from pasture raised beef and lamb, organic milk and real free range eggs.
No insects, no ground nesting birds. Areas without any silage cutting have suffered similar fates so the reduction in the insects must be responsible. In the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s having driven from Dublin to the West of Ireland to fish on our return we would have to wash our windscreen, headlights and number plates from the huge numbers of insect strikes but that is no longer the case. Something happened around the early 00s that resulted in a massive kill off of insects.
In Iowa ? Our Blue Jays are disappearing in our area (EASTERN)along with our cardinals and Doves and way less Robin's returned this last spring from their southern migration. Plus, the geese were way less this spring also coming back from their migration. IT IS THAT HORRID BIRD FLU THAT THE GOVERNMENT ACTS LIKE IT ISN'T AROUND. 😢
@cowboykelly6590 same, Ohio. But then they don't even get through with young, because of these hawks.. big problems though, yes
Missing you guys 👌 😊!.
Oh sparrow Hawks
Modern farming practices?
Eating cereal and drinking soy or almond milk is even worse for the environment, as these come from absolute monocultures. Your best bet is to feed yourself from pasture raised beef and lamb, organic milk and real free range eggs.
Every day in my garden hawk's are killings song birds,we are living next to open fields and large woodlands and the birds are being decimated by sparrow hawk's. Bird feeders we now call hawk stations and obviously stopped using them.
Grass is actually green and Yellow Wagtails are yellow. Why did the editor choose to lower the saturation so much that almost everything is grey? Is this supposed to give a sad tone to the film?
Protect farmers!!! Cancel inheritage tax!
All gone South for winter.
Twenty years ago a car would be covered in dead insects if you drove during the Spring to Autumn period. Now very few insects. Next the birds go then what comes next?
Cats, badgers, ground nesting and magpies, jays, parrots otherwise. Then add in humans.
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The lapwings are mainly at airports.
Keep building on farm land and inner city places its humans
If people are prepared to pay a bit more for milk,farmers will be able to make living from smaller land.and herd.
5D New Earth. You better get here too !
Insects also have disappeared.
Such is the devastation of Big Oil.
No gamekeepers nowadays to keep the crows,magpies & foxes down.Ground nesting birds are decimated by these vermin.
You didn't pay much attention to this video I suppose. The by far biggest danger is the way agriculture has developed. Don't come up with that false statement. Reality has proven the correct cause.
Pesticides are the biggest problem imo
yea but if we didnt need to eat it would be ok!
Kites can pickup a brood of partridge lark's peewit in no time eating them on the Wing and back round for the other's
Very depressing.
Here in the UK the latest problem is that we’ve been restricted again on controlling pest bird populations such as magpies and crows and pigeons. I’ve had house sparrows and blue tits and wrens and chiffchaffs round my gaff since I moved here and now barely heard a Robin- just magpies and seagulls. You can thank Chris Packham for that one, pretending he cares about wildlife when he don’t know bugger all about it really
As a farmer here in the UK for over 50 years on a family farm owned since the early 1800s, I see the problem being not only Magpies , Carrion Crows and Pigeon , but also Buzzards, Kites, Hawks, Stoats, Weasels, Foxes ,Rats and most devastating of all Grey Squirrels.
What chance has nesting bird? There was a great deal of game shooting in the past, not here but around here and the gamekeepers used to keep a lot of these predators in check.
We have not changed our farming much in all that time, we have more hedgerows and Woodland than when I was starting, I have embraced many environmental schemes and created a large lake and half a dozen scrapes. Still have not seen an English Partridge for years and have seen a decline of song birds generally. There is also the terrible recent weather to take into account. This might well have affected the insect world and have a knock on effect for the birds. It is not that simple to just blame farming practice
Then there are all the cats and people walking their dogs without a lead thinking they have a right to roam
AND CATS, THEY KILL THOUSANDS OF LITTLE BIRDS 🤬
@@duckpuddles predator populations are determined by prey numbers ,so plenty prey ,and the predators will also increase ,that's an healthy environment.the wipe out of the very basics first the insect base is the start of all our bird decline, when in years have you had to wash your windscreen ,at one time it was covered in bugs.Also soil erosion has dramatically reduced the number of earth worms another important food source for birds, hedgerow destruction ,early cutting in crops ,stubble re ploughing early and the change in farming practises are the big culprits.
@@williampinchers I might add that I have not used an insecticide since the 1970s. there were some very bad effects of DDT that are well recorded as it killed most of the raptors and birds at the top of the food chain. A side effect of this was the sight of many Thrushes, Blackbirds on our lawns, listening for worms as I was growing up in the 1960s. When the hawks recovered in the 1980s there was then the sight of a cloud of feathers in the middle of the lawn after a Sparrow ~Hawk had done its business. Many gardenbirds, Hedge Sparrows ChiffChaff, warblers all now gone due to Squirrel, Crow, Cat , Hawk, car. The insect decline is harder to fathom. We have been vacuuming hundreds of cluster flies in our attics this winter and they live and breed in the soil. Likewise at the lake are swarms of gnats and Dragon flies. I admit there are hardly any on car windscreens but maybe due to improved aerodynamics?
@@williampinchers this meddling with the climate could be another reason for insect decline.
ruclips.net/video/PVUOj9eU0xg/видео.htmlsi=famorurjtWA03glO
More cows eating grass and less cereal crops.
EMFs wiping all birds out , I live in Lancashire never hear any birds now
So dose anybody have any ideas on how to harvest without do that to the deer and birds . You can't imagine what it feels like when these tragedies happen. I've worked no farms all my life in Canada. Believe me .... we feel worse than you aboug it . But in my 50 years of farm work ' which I loved ' nobody had any answer's. I did my best to see into the hay for thousands and thousands of hours in my career.
Eating cereal and drinking soy or almond milk is even worse for the environment, as these come from absolute monocultures. Your best bet is to feed yourself from pasture raised beef and lamb, organic milk and real free range eggs.
Cat's magpie's Crows in abundance
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Why does this video makes me think of the United Kingdom?
Bagus banget jauh dimata dekat dihati dari kami wilwaltilka❤♨️🇮🇩
Ask Rachel.
You should ask, where are the insects, however haven't watched the video. Young chicks need insects.
the solution is not simple
Eating cereal and drinking soy or almond milk is even worse for the environment, as these come from absolute monocultures. Your best bet is to feed yourself from pasture raised beef and lamb, organic milk and real free range eggs.
this year in andalucia spain 70 pecent less starlings if not more no wagtails seen just oneno thrushes
intensive farming pesticides direct persecution and a general lack of care for the planet
Cheapest careless greedy food for human
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Just you tube the Dimming then you will see insects bees are all going then nothing will grow
Herbicides and pesticides.
May be stop using Cows (another spices) milk and drink Plant Based Milk.
Parece ser um gatinho 🐱 do mestico preto
you love the sound of your own voice!!!! cut to the chase data miner
Chemical heàven
white wagtales collecting insects on my cars front bumper
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Its gonna be 5g
Maybe the Crow eating the eggs and chicks
I’ve been in the same home 55 years and seen the disappearance of many bird species. I brought in bee hives as they have gone from days past also. 🦘🇦🇺