Where has all the wildlife gone?

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I live in the sticks (east of England) and I've been out at different times of the day with my camera between dawn and sunset and I've noticed a drop in wildlife activity, mainly mammals. I've hardly heard a muntjac bark let alone see them and it's still rutting season just about. The birds are still active early AM for a while and the owls are twooting at night, but it's become ghostly quiet on the fields.

Anyone else noticed this?
 
Fuju said:
I live in the sticks (east of England) and I've been out at different times of the day with my camera between dawn and sunset and I've noticed a drop in wildlife activity, mainly mammals. I've hardly heard a muntjac bark let alone see them and it's still rutting season just about. The birds are still active early AM for a while and the owls are twooting at night, but it's become ghostly quiet on the fields.

Anyone else noticed this?
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To be honest when I started walking again one of the reasons was to take more wildlife photographs I started taking my camera with me all the time, now I rarely do. I still get plenty of those initial "that would have made a great shot moments*" as we all do. but rarely much else.

* That moment you turn a corner and a heron fly's past you wings just touching the water. Or like me yesterday a trellis fence in front of a hedge edge with a sparrow in every square, next second all gone.
 
I noticed that my garden only has pigeons visiting now, however during the summer I had foxes, starlings, sparrows plus other little birds.
 
I was discussing this with a fellow bird togger a few weeks ago down on the Somerset levels - the lakes were practically empty of life.
 
Masses of birds in the garden I work in a lot where I have 2 feeders. Today I have seen goldfinches, greenfinches, a flock of about 40 Long tailed tits, great tits, blue tits and at least 4 robins plus the usual sparrows, blackbirds, dunnocks etc.
 
I have noticed a change in the type of birds I see in the garden. Oystercatchers, starlings, greenfinches, Siskin and starlings seem to have disappeared. We now have regular goldcrests, a wren has returned and we have recently acquired a male pheasant
 
It goes up and down, I think. For a couple of years I have seen far fewer blackbirds and song thrushes which were formerly common. Just recently, due to the easterly winds, bramblings have arrived and also lots and lots of chaffinches.

Dave
 
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