I was the other birder that the stupendously self-important "officer" (or whatever she was- a wannabe of some sort) attempted to chase off. I chose not to be chased. When she said, "you need to move along" (with sort of the same intonation one would use on a ten-year-old potential miscreant, loitering outside the sweet shop, awaiting an opportunity to steal a lollipop), I asked why. She replied that all the land around there is owned by farmers, DIA, etc, etc. She didn't specify who owns the shoulder of the road, but I suspect it is a public right of way. When I appeared reluctant to follow her stentorian-voiced instructions, she declared that, by golly, she'd just call the police. I allowed that seemed to be a grand idea, and please do. I waited around for a while (unsuccessfully scanning for the owls), but no police appeared. I think she must be comrads-in-arms with Golf Cart Boy out at Latham. Anyway, as Candace mentioned, I guess we have one more place where we offensive, aggressive, felonious birdwatchers are going to be harassed. I guess there aren't enough real criminals out there to keep these people busy......
Norm Lewis Lakewood Sent from my iPad > On Mar 31, 2017, at 6:05 PM, Johnson, Candice E., MD. > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Today at 10 am my husband and I got out of our car on 96th Avenue near DIA > and briefly saw 2 Burrowing Owls. We used our spotting scope & we noticed a > couple of oil company trucks not too far away from the burrows. We drove on > & returned about 20 minutes later. At the same spot was a HSS security > vehicle, which pulled up next to us & told us we had to move on. We protested > that we were only birdwatchers, but the woman officer kept yelling until we > closed our windows. She then harassed another car driven by a birder with > binocs across the road. Just a warning! I don't think they have any > jurisdiction over the public highway, but I remain open to education. > > Candice E. Johnson > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the > sole use of the intended recipient and may contain confidential and > privileged information. If you are not an intended recipient, or the person > responsible for delivering this message to an intended recipient, you are > hereby notified that reading, copying, using or distributing this message is > prohibited. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact the sender > by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message from your > computer system. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Colorado Birds" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/D6C44EC0A96AC2479B375DB5227E2CFE014ECB637A%40PRDEXMB2.thechildrenshospital.org. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/D3AE9A83-CCEE-4445-AE14-62F65329D8DB%40aol.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
