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Where have all the birdies gone? (self.nature)

submitted 7 months ago by AngstyPony to c/nature

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I've lived in this place in SW Wales for 25 years and, as usual, put out food for the visiting #birds. At the start you'd see a couple of dozen species visiting each day. Just now I fed them and total visitors to table so far = zero. The magpies and wood-pigeons will eventually wander by and vac it all up. The changes are so noticeable and chilling.

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[–] Lenny@lemmy.zip 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Insect populations have decreased 75% over the past 50 years. Birds eat insects. 😔

[–] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This.
Corporate media blames cats. The true culprit is pesticides.

[–] Mex 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

cat's don't help though

[–] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No they don't. But keeping cats inside won't cause the drop to stop at all.

[–] snaprails 2 points 7 months ago

It would at least stop the little fuckers shitting in my garden. I’d call that a win. #saynototoxoplasmosis

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

[–] AngstyPony 1 points 7 months ago

LOL

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

I'm in the valleys, and get a decent amount of birds and animals coming to my garden. I get magpies and collared doves, but I get a lot of little birds too.

They're still here :)

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There will always be life on this planet in one or the other form, at least until the sun expands enough to consume atmosphere and oceans.

Up to and after mankinds demise there will be less animals but nature will heal and produce new life in abundant numbers.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Those of us that remember what we had are allowed to mourn its loss. It's worth being sad about the death of beauty.

[–] rmuk 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I helped an old dude clear out his garage last year. In the back was a big, old, still half-full 10L bottle of washer fluid that advertised how effective it was at clearing insects off the windscreen. He said that during the peak of Spring you couldn't drive more than fifteen minutes without using a few spritz to clear them, but at some point he just stopped having to refill with anything more potent that antifreeze. Personally, I honestly can't remember the last time I used my sprayers, but I'm sure it's been over a decade.

Insects are dying because we're killing them.