It is good to hear that you are concerned for roadside wildlife - it is certainly not cared for anywhere near as much as it should be if we want our local landscapes to provide the infrastructure for wildlife to recover from disturbance and to react to climate change. There are so many pressures on the roadside environment: salting, road-widening, ditching, pipe-laying, fly-tipping, mowing for the sake of neatness etc. etc. it's a wonder how wildlife can persist at all under such conditions! Hopefully local communities will value road verges increasingly as vital arteries for wildlife and 'Best Kept Town' competitions will start to make room for wildlife in their judging criteria in place of year-round mowing and the substitution of wild primroses and knapweeds with artificial bizzie-lizzies cultivated daffodils!
