Wildlife Emboldened by the Anthropause

Although the longterm effects on climate change may be small, Covid19 and its attendant economic slowdown seems to have given a fleeting, but much appreciated, boost to wildlife around the globe. Some have dubbed this reduced human activity as the "Anthropause", a reference to the widely held view that we are in the midst of a new geological epoch defined by human impacts on the earth.

Wildlife at Manor Holding is no exception. The hot sunny weather during lockdown has brought an abundant early harvest of fruit and spectacular fungi, creating excellent conditions for wildlife emboldened by the changes to human activity patterns, and /or displaced from normally secret glades by increased forestry and human leisure activity. Fallow and Muntjac deer have been taking advantage of our apple crop and garden flowers to venture right up to the house each night and even in broad daylight. The varied bird nests in the eaves have produced multiple broods of fledglings. And squirrels have been busy planting the next crop of nut trees in our lawns.