It certainly is cause for concern though, as the article states, fishing
regulations on sandeels has been in affect since last year and yet still
there is not enough food. I do believe there is a fair amount of
scaremongery going on from certain people, but you still can not hide the
fact that we are going into global warming with our eyes firmly shut.

My husband too is from Scotland and was there only a few weeks ago, he had
been talking to people he knows from the RSPB in the outer Hebrides about
this very thing, people who have collected data for years have seen a
decline in breading habits. The thing is, years ago when similar patterns
were evolving, there was not the devastation of land and over fishing so
things could sort of get back to what we call normal. Of course now, we have
to find a balance and this is hard when many people in power and decision
makers, fob this off as nonsense.

I just read an e-mail from someone in Australia talking about the same
thing, my family lives in Australia and have been telling me for 6 years
now, how little water is falling on the land; they have never known this as
bad.





G'day from Down Under



There are a number of Penguin colonies south of New Zealand which have also
been failing in recent years due to plankton moving further south and fish
stocks following. The Penguins simply cannot make the return journey from
their rookeries to the fish stocks and back so breeding fails or is
abandoned.



Even more frightening is how the Antarctic weather patterns have altered and
now all the rain which used to fall on the southern mainland of Australia
now falls on the Southern Ocean and it wont be coming back any time soon.

All of our main southern capitals are running out of water, with record low
supplies and everyone on rationing for the past couple of years. Sydney has
around 18 months of water remaining and what is there is the result of a
week long deluge about 6 years ago. We've had no real rain in years. Some
eminent scientists are saying the Perth; the capital of Western Australia
may have to be abandoned, making it the first "ghost metropolis" of the
modern era.



Meanwhile, back in Sydney, large trees along our streets are all dying,
rainforests are shutting down and other forests are showing signs of great
stress with dried up trees and quite a number even falling over as the soil
is so dry that it cannot hold the trees up anymore. Whole forests are
flowering out of season due to stress. Many species of birds are considered
at great risk now as a direct result of higher temperature and environmental
degradation.



It's just so sad and frightening to walk through a forest and know that the
result of millions of years of evolution is under great threat and my
feathered friends whom I so dearly love will soon be no more. So, in
Australia, the fossil fuel and excess consumerism noose is now hanging right
in front of our faces and it doesn't feel so good.





Rooy

Nesting somewhere in Redmond