primmiemoo
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You'll forgive me that I might know more about the locations I'm referring to than you do, but the farming operations don't actually contribute to the presence of the birds which are drawn by habitat outwith the enclosed land (sea cliffs or moorland).
In any event the point I was making is that the farmers were blissfully unaware of what was going on round about them. Doesn't make them bad people, just shows that they weren't particularly interested. Which is fair enough.
[/:Chortle] I went to some meetings years ago which had a surprisingly high %age of farmers in the audience, where the visiting speaker (speaking about conservation, mostly) got cross afterwards because he detected indifference.
The retired academic who'd organised them had to explain that the farmers were as much a part of the ecosystems he'd been extolling as the fauna and flora, and might be perplexed about his attitude toward their ordinary. They'd pine if it wasn't there. [:/Chortle]
Envy you coastal work, FF.