SongbirdsSlaughter

EXTINCTION FILE: 2008 March – Metro ‘It Sounds Like The Story Line For – The Next Instalment of the Jurassic Park Movie Series – AS Scientists Develop A DNA Bank For Animals Which Are ALL – Facing Extinction.’ But the ‘Frozen Ark’ is real. It will preserve the genetic blueprints of endangered species and could […]

FIELD BIRDS AT RECORD LOW… The Sun: 2011 January 2nd – The UK’s farmland bird populations have fallen to a record low official figures showed yesterday. “In England alone the numbers of 19 species which rely on farmland for food and breeding have ‘dropped’ by more than half since 1970.”  Tree sparrows, yellow wagtails, corn […]

Time IS – Running Out For Songbirds. From The End Of August I Didn’t See Anything Again Of ‘my’ Blackbirds. Our backyard is just plagued by magpies as well as street pigeons. Wood pigeons are now getting as common. With cawing crows plus hawks flying overhead. “Magpies cackling witches rattling all over Westminster and the City […]

‘British Consumers Use an Estimated 10 Billion Plastic Bags A Year!’ Daily Mail: 2007 February 16th – ‘Manufactured from about 700,000 barrels of oil.’ “The Energy Embodied IN These BAGS – IS The EQUIVALENT OF ‘DRIVING MORE THAN A BILLION’ KILOMETRES.” The Facts WERE ‘Enough’ TO STUN MANY Shoppers… 2011 February: Songbirds-Slaughter; Note Nothing has changed… […]

and Finally… 2006 November 15th Metro: ‘Birdwatchers Looked On In Horror – As A Swallow Not Seen In Britain – For ’20’ Years Was Carried Off – In The Claws Of A Sparrowhawk…’ The twitchers had been watching the red-rumpted swallow for 20 minutes when it stopped to rest on a TV aerial. It was […]

‘CULL NEEDED FOR THE GREATER GOOD OF ALL BIRDS.’ –  Belfast Telegraph: 2003 August: I read with interest Mr Martins letter and was impressed with the factual manner in which he made his point. ‘It is a pity he did not mention the large increase in ‘magpies’ and hooded ‘crows’ everywhere. They have increased tenfold […]

A Flock of Screeching Parakeets Flying Over Our Backyard. – “Yet Ever More Predators and Scavengers – Displacing Our Resident Garden Songbirds !“ Photos: Great Tit. Sings loud and clear (read below). Numbers; Piteously down…! – 17th May 2010. I’ve only seen Wanda and Wuffy ‘my’ blackbirds, coming for food now and again into their bird shed […]

“The Year ‘2011’ That Drastically Saw Ever More The – Loss Of All Our British Garden Songbirds.” Yet ever again ‘my’ pair of Blackbirds – That mate for life – Have For Four Years Been Trying To Raise – A ‘family.’ Tragically – All ‘chicks’ Killed by magpies. “All Without Success” -WIPED OUT EVER MORE ! In […]

‘HOW GREY SQUIRRELS’ – SILENCE & DEVASTATE OUR GARDEN SONGBIRDS – The Daily Mail 2006 May 30: They are responsible for almost wiping out their native cousins and now it seems grey squirrels have another species in their sights. They have added to the devastation of our much-loved Songbird populations by killing adult birds and raiding their nests. […]

“Smokescreen.” – The London Paper – 2006 December 11th: Carbon Talk Fails To Halt Bad Air. Global Carbon Emissions Rose Nearly ‘3’ Three per cent In 2005; – Up More Than A Quarter From ‘1990’ Levels Despite Many World Wide Governments ‘Pledging’ Cuts – To Fight Global Warming A Top Scientist Claimed. Greg Marland Who Provides Data […]