Charles L wrote:

>>The hawk situation is getting insane here  drove back from NE the other
day and hawks roadside literally every 1/2 mile....   <<


I just drove from Ontario to New Brunswick and we saw a large number of
hawks, eagles, falcons etc en route.  My ornithologist wife commented on
this as the annual (spring) raptor migration.  I think we'd be alarmed if
we didn't see it?


On the insect decline topic, the following paper has received a lot of
airplay:

 Hallmann CA, Sorg M, Jongejans E, Siepel H, Hofland N, Schwan H, et al.
(2017) More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect
biomass in protected areas. PLoS ONE 12(10): e0185809.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185809

The work was done in reserves in Germany that are effectually small
protected islands amid a lot of agriculture.  The authors looked at habitat
change and climate change and felt unable to satisfactorily explain the
decline with these factors.   They did not specifically investigate
pesticide impacts and were restrained in their comment on that possible
driver.

Rob H
Upper Kingclear
NB

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