Disastrous weather for wildlife.........

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17966324This cold and wet weather seems depressingly unrelenting...the wettest April on record....but it really has been a disaster for wildlife, particularly birds, for whom timing is everything. Their arrival, incubation of eggs and rearing of young is all aimed at coinciding with fresh tannin free foliage and abundant insects. Even if the young birds are fed sufficiently to fledge, the cold and damp will kill them. I have found several drenched blue tits and blackbirds that have succumbed in this way. It is indeed colder now than it was at Christmas......there is time for most species to have a second brood but if this weather continues it will be a disaster.......