Hi all, Whether photographers disturb the birds or not, I find that whenever you point a big lens towards the birds they are spooked and they tend to fly away! They see things as probably big eyes staring at them and that makes them uncomfortable.
As for Mark Millers comments, I think the Benning's has hardly any traffic at all so I don't see any problem in facing wrong way to photograph or see the birds closely for a short period as one cannot get out of the car. The road is wide enough. Many times the refuge itself has made the road two ways when the construction was going on. I am sure the driver was careful enough not to ram into the up coming traffic. As for the sightings from my home, I find lots of Blue Jays spend their time in my yard pottering around in fall season. Yesterday I saw them hiding oak nuts under spruce trees. At work, from office window, I see everyday lots of Blue Jays going with a nut in one direction only, that is they fly southwest and approximately from the same location. i.e one oak tree. So I wonder if they have a specific location where they store nuts rather than random scattering. Anyone has seen something like this I would be curious to hear about it. Cheers Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ ________________________________ -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
