Carl makes some good points here <Personally I think it would be a lot more effective for us to just go around to all of the fishing sites we can and remove any line we find. Even making it a point that we make the extra effort when we are birding to watch for things like this and take action on the spot. With as many of us who go out regularly it would only take a little more effort on out part to seek out and remove these hazards as we bird. >
Certainly we could clean up as we go. But, unless I'm mistaken, the most egregious line is that which is inaccessibly high and snagged on branches, which is why it is cut and abandoned in the first place. To remove that would probably require more effort and more tools that most of us carry around birding with us. I am totally ignorant about fishing...so a question to those who know, is there a better way for an angler to deal with snagged line than to cut and leave it? Of course the obvious answer is to make more of an effort to reach it and untangle. I am not trying to set anyone up, simply wanting more information. It strikes me that we should be tackling the problem at its outset, not merely cleaning up afterwards. Marie Marie Read Wildlife Photography 452 Ringwood Road Freeville NY 13068 USA Phone 607-539-6608 e-mail m...@cornell.edu http://www.marieread.com ***NEW*** Music of the Birds Vol 1 ebook for Apple iPad now available from iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/music-of-the-birds-v1/id529347014?mt=11 ________________________________________ From: bounce-63376103-5851...@list.cornell.edu [bounce-63376103-5851...@list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Carl Steckler [c...@cornell.edu] Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 12:39 PM To: CAYUGABIRDS-L Subject: [PMX:#] Re: [cayugabirds-l] plus the hazards of discarded fishing line - a new club project? -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
