Country Diary 100 years on: sheep and dogs dominate over rabbits and house martins

Domesticated creatures feature heavily in contemporary contributions to Guardian column compared to diaries of 1920sIn the early 1920s, the British countryside was a place where blackbirds sang, rabbits scurried and the summer skies were animated by swallows and house martins. A century on, blackbirds still sing and ancient oaks stand proud but the landscape is dominated by sheep, cows and dogs – according to Guardian country diarists.A study of the most-featured species in the Country Dia