Silent spring in our village.
This morning, I woke up early. One blackbird was singing in our neighbourhood. When it stopped (to find something to eat, I guess), it became silent.
In the 1990s, dozens of songbirds would've been singing, sometimes making so much noise that it was hard to sleep.
We live in a village near Utrecht with lots of (small) gardens and fields and parks around it.
The decline happened gradually, over the years. I don't think there's a single cause, like DDT in Rachel Carson's time. But it's part of a big biodiversity crisis here in the Netherlands.
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It's called the shifting baseline syndrome right?
Kees van der Leun
Tom Ootes