Thanks for that JD your update clearly demonstrates the precarious position that nature finds itself in full of both triumph and tragedy made worse by our own interventions, We continue to clear rough areas and silage fields before the birds have had a chance to breed? We net hedges in order that they can be removed during the nesting season, birds of prey continue to be persecuted around grouse moors despite it’s illegality, and now there is to be a cull of ravens from a grouse moor in Scotland authorised by the very authority set up to protect wildlife.
If I have learnt one thing in life it is that I get on better with wildlife than I do with humans! Trouble is there is too little of one and far too many of the other!!!