Hi Penny, sadly we are having similar issues in our village thankfully nowhere near your scale (at the moment). We are getting increasing numbers of rooks. We have lovely fields around the village, not sure how long for. The diggers are busy filling in people’s back gardens at the moment with houses. We are lucky in that a lot of fields around our side of the village belong to a horse sanctuary and they appear to be extending their range and making more paddocks, very please about, safeguarding those fields.
I know what you mean on the garden centre front, long gone are the days you could walk into a garden centre and just have plants etc.. they all seem to be going down the same route, it only gets worse as the seasonal displays start! Should you ask anyone in one of these mega garden centres a horticultural question chances are they look vaguely at you and don’t know the answer.
Traffic is a serious issue nowadays, what used to be country lanes seem to heave under the weight of traffic now. Long gone are the days we only saw 2 cars on the way to work, it’s a constant stream in both directions and I can only assume by people that excited at going to work they have to drive like idiots in the rush to get there. This morning a couple of female pheasants, a moorhen and squirrel all ran the gauntlet to cross the road.
