| Re: Benefiting from a warmer climate
As Rob has said, Little Egrets are rapidly becoming established with large colonies in a few places and also a few birds spread as far north as Scotland.
Staying with the family Cattle and Great White Egrets are becoming more and more common. Glossy Ibis are being seen and so are Black-winged Stilts. Hoopoe's seem to be visiting us more often these days (always a pleasure to see these birds).
The downside to this global warming might not be keeping us warm for too long though due to the ice melting and breaking up the gulf stream. If that happens we could be thrust into another ice age here in the UK with catastrophic results to both us and our wildlife.
John |