As I'm looking out the window this morning and greeted by yet another miserable day at the end of August I'm hoping that the weather forecast is right about it brightening up tommorrow. But how has wildlife been affected - if at all - by the extremely wet weather this year?

I know around here that there are a lot less bees and wasps around this summer (as has been discussed in another thread). There are also farmers fields which have become complrtely overgrown because it is too wet to cut them, and these seem to have attracted all sorts of wildlife such as butterflies and dragonflies, so it's not all bad.

The wet weather's been great news for the slugs and snails. I've noticed a huge increase in their numbers in my garden.
This might attract Song Thrushes back, which I've noticed have rapidly diminished around my neck of the woods, as have Curlews, Plovers and Swallows. Funnily enough even the Starling population has decreased around here, which I used to see flocking above the fields at dusk.