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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Birdwatch Wiltshire" data-source="post: 3401849" data-attributes="member: 137877">First rooks now house martinsI found this thread while anxiously searching for a reason for the abandonment of our 70+ year old rookery. We are on a farm in Wiltshire and there has always been a huge rookery in the line of beech trees in front of the house and in the adjoining Wansdyke which runs through the farm. Last year there were far fewer nests and this year absoluteley none. A few nests started in one tree, but they have now gone too. We are missing the noise, morning and night, as they circle round the house, and now becoming apprehensive about the superstition of death!The beech trees may be reaching maturity as they were planted in the 20th century and one was recently blown over. Has anyone come up with other ideas? Anyone else had the same experience?To add to our distress, it is nearing the end of May, and our house martins, normally nesting all along the roofline of some buildings, have not appeared. Last year dozens, this year none. Is it Armageddon?</blockquote>