That pretty much mirrors the insect populations in my neck of the woods too, Stan. I've even noticed that honeybees seem to be bouncing back after several years of relative scarcity.
No doubt that clean farming techniques took a toll on game bird populations, but it hardly explains the situation in northern grouse habitat where herbicides are never used and cover still constantly changes due to forest maturation, and subsequent timbering. And just try to get a Game Commission biologist in my state to admit how they screwed up ringneck pheasant hunting by changing the law to permit shooting hens when populations were already beginning to decline.
Like BrentD, I haven't had to wash my windshield very often this year either. But that's because we're having more days than average with rain this year. Hardly scientific proof of anything except that rain and windshield wipers will remove bug guts.
