There's no farmland birds anymore

[Badshot]

Bollix.
I'm getting deafened by skylarks!
And I can't qualify for SFI with my current farm system!
A short video I took outside my grainstore this morning.

Couldn't actually focus on any but by God they're noisy buggers.

 

[Adeptandy]

Loads here as well, there's a lot in the Beans this year. Dare I suggest the wider spacing of the DD are helping

 

[Hindsight]

Spent 10 minutes this morning at 8.30 listening and watching Skylarks in fallow fields to rear of village. Way up in sky singing to mark territory, then dive bombing to ground. Quite fascinating. The local large estate has an area of enhanced overwinter stubble under CSS and it is popular with Skylarks.

 

[Hindsight]

Bollix.
I'm getting deafened by skylarks!
And I can't qualify for SFI with my current farm system!
A short video I took outside my grainstore this morning.

Couldn't actually focus on any but by God they're noisy buggers.

Yep, that was me too this morning. Wonder if it is time of year for this high up in sky singing. Is really irritating when the 'experts' say there are no skylarks or some other species but I see them every day. Hares is another species that is oft talked about, yet I trip over them, literally, every day as I am out around crops,

 

[Wombat]

We had 2 kites and 6 buzzards when sileaging the other week.

We have lapwings and kestrels and barn owls and the list goes on, I don’t think have seen as many as we have now

 

[Yale]

Don’t traditionally have skylarks here however more hares than ever.

Over run with badgers here and rarely see a hedgehog,if ever.

 

[nelly55]

Lots of bird life about here,lucky in the last few days to watch a barn owl hunting during the day over the grass fields then flying over the garden to its nest in the old barn.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I’ve been spending 7-8 weeks every June-July field walking and soil sampling for 20 years.

There is, without a doubt, way more wildlife around than there was 20 years ago, and I couldn’t understand the constant “modern farming is killing wildlife “ crap back then.

Those who insist that species numbers are disappearing fast obviously don’t spend much time outside.

 

[robs1]

We have been borrowing a Larsen trap, have caught 9 magpies in 8 days, last time we did it a few years ago the next year we had loads more song birds by the end of summer

 

[Kevtherev]

Plenty of different species around here and lovely too see them throughout the day.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Species parked in gateways and swapping spit? You love to see them through your binoculars don’t you Kev?

 

[Kevtherev]

Species parked in gateways and swapping spit? You love to see them through your binoculars don’t you Kev?

Don’t see them so much now since I stopped verge mowing but did see a cortina the other day steamed up windows big bare arse in window with Warwickshire registration

 

[Cab-over Pete]

I asked you not to say owt, you colossal nobhead.

 

[thorpe]

I’ve been spending 7-8 weeks every June-July field walking and soil sampling for 20 years.

There is, without a doubt, way more wildlife around than there was 20 years ago, and I couldn’t understand the constant “modern farming is killing wildlife “ crap back then.

Those who insist that species numbers are disappearing fast obviously don’t spend much time outside.

agree

 

[thorpe]

Don’t see them so much now since I stopped verge mowing but did see a cortina the other day steamed up windows big bare arse in window with Warwickshire registration

what on the arse?

 

[Av Gorritt]

We have plenty of birds about the place . Trouble is that they're mostly the wrong sort . Jackdaws mostly . They've built a nest in one of my unused chimneys , and one came down , pushed off the vent panel and did a tour of the house . made an absolute mess everywhere . THAT one won't be doing it again . A few woodies , a few maggies , and getting to have too many pheasant now . Swallows , blackbirds , robins , wrens , pied wagtails , all seem to keep a steady presence year on year . We always have a few curlew up on the moor , and we always used to have an abundance of skylarks , but I haven't heard any for a few years . A regular green woodpecker , and just a few jays , but no thrushes . We also seem to have a thriving "charm " of goldfinches, regularly seen drinking or bathing in a small spring outflow , or of course stuffing themselves with seeds .

 

[Sals dad]

was ploughing for maize some weeks ago and had 21 buzzards ,1 kite as well as usual amount of gulls etc , poor lapwing chicks were an easy meal , lots of skylarks in the tramlines at the moment as well as swallows skimming the crops

 

[thorpe]

was ploughing for maize some weeks ago and had 21 buzzards ,1 kite as well as usual amount of gulls etc , poor lapwing chicks were an easy meal , lots of skylarks in the tramlines at the moment as well as swallows skimming the crops

the first bits sh!t the second bits luv . it all sounds like round here!

 

[SilliamWhale]

The RSPB red list of farmland birds is actually quite small.

 

[Kevtherev]

was ploughing for maize some weeks ago and had 21 buzzards ,1 kite as well as usual amount of gulls etc , poor lapwing chicks were an easy meal , lots of skylarks in the tramlines at the moment as well as swallows skimming the crops

Too many raptors about to the detriment of other birds especially ground nesters.