This is Progress?

One would think that when they move out to an acre and a half that they wouldn't have to deal with a major change in landscape. Imagine my annoyed surprise when I poked my head out our tree line to see this:

The farmland around us has changed hands. I guess he wants to make use of every square acre that he has. I've lost my treeline for my sunset shots, for our long afternoon walks, (although now we can walk much farther along the creek, and even walk to the back forty as long as the crops are off), for our sharing of the mulberry bushes with the birds. The one neat bonus we've experienced is the huge variety of birds that are now singing in our treeline instead of the former distant one. Birds that we will likely not see at all come spring migration. It makes me wonder how many little critters were displaced in the uprooting of a formerly wildlife habitat rich treeline?

I must say that I am very thankful for our little tree wrapped acreage. Perhaps it's time to plant some more bird and critter attracting plants, shrubs, and trees.