agree mate it was the same with the sparrowhawk 70`s early `s they were as rare as hens teeth around here, now there as common as starlings.
Which is ironic because as sparrowhawk numbers have increased so populations of small bird species have crashed.
Like has been said, there are shed loads of badgers local to me but I haven't once seen a hedgehog in the 8 years I've been living here but I've seen more badgers than in my whole life previous.
thats bollox about the spar mate, a healthy spar population means a healthy bird population,the demise of our garden birds is feck all to d