On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 6:38 PM Nancy Cusumano <nancycusuman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been thinking about this too. And to me the issue is, what is in it > for the farmer? If we are going to ask them to cut their fields up to go > around nesting sites, is the bird conservation issue enough for them? What > is the carrot, I guess is my question. I don't know the answer. > The carrot question is a challenging one, and not one I'm prepared to address, but I think of it as an independent problem. I'm working on the assumption that some farmers, either via some form of persuasion or just from their own love of nature, would be interested in not killing nestlings. We've heard allusion to at least two such farmers in recent posts. But as of today, these farmers do not have any workable solution other than a loosy-goosy guideline of "wait til July to mow" which, as others have explained, is often not compatible with their harvest constraints. The volunteer surveyor's corps, if it can be successfully materialized, would be an option for those farmers to try something different. The idea would not be for the corps to go around trying to convince farmers to do this or that, but to be available as a resource for those who desire it. Suan -- 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/ --
