It was nice for a while yeah.
I noticed a number of pretty bad effects to the local wildlife though. I think the disruption to the feeding habits of our scavengers caused a bit of a domino effect... I think foxes, rats and pigeons started to compete for food with surrounding forest, farm and scrubland critters.
I noticed a dramatic drop in the numbers of hedgehogs, stag beetles, lesser stag beetles, and dragonfly. Also I've not seen a common cockchafer since then.
The hedgehogs are hanging on, but I see one or two per week, when before I'd see one or two groups of 3-5 per day. I saw one or two big dragonfly this year, but none of the smaller blue/azure damselfly for two years. There used to be thousands of them.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 1 Sep 2021, 23:16,
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