snails & thrushessnails & thrushesListening to the dawn chorus this morning, I was thinking how sad it is that I
rarely hear a thrush now. There were loads when we moved here, our last one that sung from the same treetop for a few years was beheaded by a cat  last year. We don't use pesticides, our garden is fairly "wild", we have lots of pots & rocks, back on to a nettle patch in a huge field, next doors garden is completely wild, yet snails have massively declined in our garden, which I suppose is why the thrushes have. Why?? any environment experts out there? "He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
--Immanuel Kant
Re: snails & thrushesIf your chooks FR - that will explain a drop in snail numbers. If not something must have changed......... dried out too much, flooding etc
Re: snails & thrushesYou can have some of mine...no decline here.
Re: snails & thrushesThis has happened before we got the chooks & we dont flood here, must be something else.
Thrushes are on the red list, I wonder if snails are in decline too, & if there's any connection? (Maybe they've all moved to your house grannyof4) "He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
--Immanuel Kant Re: snails & thrushesWe have loads of snails and slugs, YUK. No thrushes though, but plenty of other birds about.
Re: snails & thrushesThere has been a decline in the different species that visit our garden too, although the food is put out just the same and a variety too to suit the different birds. I did the RSPB survey a couple of years ago and even from then I can see a decline and even fewer numbers of our regulars such as chaffinch,blue tits,blackbirds . Though the hens seem to hate the bigger birds such as wood pigeon and jackdaw and won't let them in the garden at any cost !
It will be alright in the end , if its not alright, it isn't the end .
Quote from the proprietor of the The best exotic Marigold Hotel for the elderly and beautiful Re: snails & thrushesWe had thrushes when we moved here 20 yrs ago, then none for ages . We had a nesting couple last summer
 . The snail levels have always been high here. Last year the severe winter did knock back the snail population a little. And after this winters hard freeze it might also keep the numbers down a little. But nothing will keep them down for long  Quand je serai vieille je vais vivre en France
Sunny Clucker, she came, she saw, she moved on! Re: snails & thrushesmaybe its nothing to do with snails then, in which case I should be thankful that
we dont have so many now! "He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
--Immanuel Kant |
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