General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Loss of habitat, and loss of food supply, if you think about it, years ago there were lots of old buildings with open eaves, and holes in the brickwork etc and small birds would get into those buildings, and into the walls and build nests where predators and even people could not get at them, and they would use the same nests year after year, and there were lots of sparrows back then, and also in the past rubbish wasn't sealed up in plastic bags, food scraps were a lot more accessible to birds, you threw everything into the dustbin, there were no such things as bin bags.

Now most of the rickety old buildings have gone, and modern buildings are designed, so that birds and rodents cannot access them, and nest in them, waste food is sealed away, so there is nowhere for the birds to nest, and food is hard to come by, so that is why there are less birds in urban areas, and even in the countryside, there is less habitat available to wildlife, because of modern farming methods, add to that the cat population, and how that decimates the local bird and small mammal population, because everyone seems to have a pussy these days, especially women, they love cats