In reply to toad:
> It's a bit of an alarmist statement (although that's not to say we aren't staring into an ecological abyss!).
I have a growing feeling that something very bad is happening in my bit of the Moorlands. I think there’s a catastrophic decline in ‘common’ frogs (we have no frogspawn in our ponds or any of the local ones I’ve checked, and not a single frog). We have toads and newts breeding but zero frogs. Similarly, I haven’t seen a hedgehog in over a year.
We have several local farmers with large manure piles in fields as far as possible away from their farms, plus a small livery yard, all on very waterlogged ground. With the amount of rain we’ve had there is, unsurprisingly, a lot of obvious run-off. On our side of the watershed.
Still, one the councillors mentioned in the particle is local to us, so I know who to talk to.