Not eating them but the increase in population increases pollution and road usage, plus new homes and roads built on wild habitats. Also new landfill sites takes away habitats and contaminates land.The decline in British mammals seems to be inversely proportional to the rise of immigration. They are coming over here and eating our mammals.
The decline in British mammals seems to be inversely proportional to the rise of immigration. They are coming over here and eating our mammals.
We've got a reasonable number here in our garden in Somerset, probably five or six different adults. Wife makes sure they have food and water, and keeps an eye on them for diseases. Lovely to watch, we have a couple of cameras near where we put food.Used to see 2-3 hedgehogs a night. Now lucky if I see 1 every 3 months.
Any mammal that large is going to struggle getting into a hotel in EppingWe need to import larger mammals to eat the immigrants, the only flaw in my reasoning is the cost of training these mammals not to eat British people.
It's fine putting food out for them, but what we need to focus on is a points based system that reflects their skills and also making sure they speak English.We've got a reasonable number here in our garden in Somerset, probably five or six different adults. Wife makes sure they have food and water, and keeps an eye on them for diseases. Lovely to watch, we have a couple of cameras near where we put food.
Fighty buggers mind, they shove each other around a fair bit and are pretty quick when they need to run.
Funnily enough, I drove back from a City game some seasons back and as drove onto our Close there was one on the road, a live one, small so it could have been a young one, and it scarpered up between the two houses. There isn't really a way out either, but I wasn't going checking where it had gone. Got in and shut the door. Our house backs onto a field but it's part of a quite large estate.I have never seen a live badger. I have seen about 10,000 dead ones.
The government are complicit in this and have been for decades.Funnily enough, I drove back from a City game some seasons back and as drove onto our Close there was one on the road, a live one, small so it could have been a young one, and it scarpered up between the two houses. There isn't really a way out either, but I wasn't going checking where it had gone. Got in and shut the door. Our house backs onto a field but it's part of a quite large estate.
There are no British peopleWe need to import larger mammals to eat the immigrants, the only flaw in my reasoning is the cost of training these mammals not to eat British people.
Did the badgers get them all?There are no British people
Theyre in philips park and around the old fairfield golf club house...they dont see or hear well..you can sweep em up ( by hand) if youve the bottle.
In every county except Yorkshire.Did the badgers get them all?
Ditto.Used to see 2-3 hedgehogs a night. Now lucky if I see 1 every 3 months.
Great pic that....any background info for context ?
At least our Pigs are safe.The decline in British mammals seems to be inversely proportional to the rise of immigration. They are coming over here and eating our mammals.
Just need a bigger shark.We need to import larger mammals to eat the immigrants, the only flaw in my reasoning is the cost of training these mammals not to eat British people.
Great Post,.....and I'll look that book up.. anyone minded to write about The Albatross is a special person imo. What an incredible bird! I can remember reading about The Wandering Albatross and how it lives it's life.An amazing bird,never seen one,but I'd love to.Since I've always been very fond of hedgehogs, for some reason, I looked into this a while back. At the end of the Second World War, there were an estimated 30 million hedgehogs in the UK — that's thirty million. There are now thought to be under a million. That's a staggering decline.
Although badgers are partly responsible, the main culprit is, as usual, the most dangerous mammal on the planet — man. The building-up of areas, and above all the decline in hedges (which provide a safe space for both hedgehogs and birds, but also a porous boundary) in both fields and gardens account for much of the damage.
I remember sitting out on hot summer evenings on the terrace in front of our modest garden in south Lyon. We'd be sipping a drink, and quite late in the evening, hedgehogs would come tootling out, the way they do, and fossick around in that sedate way they have. My former wife never put any chemicals on anything in the garden, although of course neighbours did, and we shouldn't kid ourselves that rain doesn't wash that stuff into your garden. We had no dog (that helps) but we did have a cat — somehow they found a way of co-existing. The other thing that was a great delight was glow-worms — they are apparently particularly sensitive to chemicals in the garden. I didn't see a glow-worm in my life, other than on Bodmin Moor on a school training exercise in 1970, until we had that garden in France in the nineties. Haven't seen one since. We have a big hedge around our garden now, and the birds love it. Most of the neighbours don't, of course. Our garden's a bit jungle-like. Animals tend to prefer that to a garden drawn up with set squares and T squares…
If you can get hold of it, get hold of a wonderful piece called “Consider The Hedgehog” by someone called Katherine Rundell. She writes brilliant short pieces on animals of all kinds. Common ones and not so common, i.e. the albatross. They were collected and published in a book called The Golden Mole. Can't recommend these pieces highly enough.
Edit: one of the single most astonishing and encouraging things about the first Covid lockdown, particularly, was how fast nature came back and re-established its rights. Apparently, big fish were seen swimming in the canals in Venice in a way that hadn't been seen in decades. They're very polluted, normally. I have a photo of a hopoo perched on the roof of the house opposite, which I've posted on this forum in the past. It's a superb photo, just because I was lucky. I used a telephoto lens, so got close up.He heard the (extremely discreet) click of the camera, and he was gone. Apparently, hopoos are shy birds and very rarely come into towns. I like to think he'd flown across the Med from Africa to spend summer in Europe.
Great pic that....any background info for context ?
The Hare can reach speeds of 33mph.....