AngstyPony

I started reading this and thought of Wietse van der Werf, who I know of from his years of tackling illegal fishing. And yes, it's he who's behind this.

Pop-up ecology!

I assume the docks are still active. That's the beauty of these large spaces where public access is limited. The creatures make the most of it while they can.

I've never seen more than one urban fox at a time, yet. My time will come, when I least expect it, like it did for you.

Yes, it really does all boil down to what people's values are.

Yes, it makes all the difference to any day. That reminded me of the raven (or jackdaw?) having a half-hearted peck at the raptor, at one point. It made zero impact. That fuzzy edge where the industrial world meets with the natural, fascinates me. It's like a tide-line.

I hadn't thought of it that way. I'm sure that's part of it. And it's a similar story here, with reduced numbers of waste-bins. I was waitng at a bus-stop yesterday - for quite a long time 😒 - that is, unsurprisingly, a rubbish hot-spot. The council removed the bin a couple of years ago. Garbage is flung into the bushes here too. But yesterday there was a small bird of prey hunting there. Well that was a treat, but seeing him fishing about amongst all the trash irked me all the more. By the way, the company I emailed about the guff by their houses got back to me and denied having any connection to that street, so then I reported it to the council as fly-tipping. Neverending story.

Yes, that seems to be the underlying attitude.

Definitely in this case, yes.

O cleverest Bot, A soul you have not ;-)

Shameless jockeying. I'm sure I signed a petition not long ago to stop this sort of thing.

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Sadly not. I have technical problems: the phone's on its last legs and doesn't want anything to do with graphics, and it and the laptop have stopped talking to each other anyway.