Hey, all. Here's a somewhat different perspective on flushing birds:
https://www.aba.org/how-to-know-the-birds-no-53-the-situational-ethics-of-seeing-a-gadwall/ Ted Floyd Lafayette, Boulder County On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 2:51 PM Kathleen Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > This morning at about 9:00 I was headed to Heron Pond to see the > Yellow-crowned Night Heron and witnessed another incident of bad birder > behavior. Two birders in the parking lot were just ahead of me and headed > to the North shore. I was going at it from the south shore and I met an > experienced birder who had just seen the bird (within the half hour) and > gotten a photo and she volunteered to take me right where she had seen it. > Then from across the pond we saw the two birders I had originally seen at > the parking lot crawling down the bank almost to the shoreline right where > the bird had been seen. > > > > We could not find it again with my scope and her good camera plus another > man came up who had also seen it from that spot just before. We stood > there for half an hour and the two were there for quite awhile but the > heron did not show obviously driven into the reeds. Amazingly, some other > people who did not appear to be birders but had a camera also crawled down > the bank. > > > > Folks, we’ve got to get a handle on this. Please do not approach birds, > play tape, or do anything that will disturb them. In addition if you see > something, say something. Thank you. I assure you that if those birders > were not on the other side of the pond, they would have gotten some > feedback from me! Sorry for this long post but it’s important. > > > > Kathleen “Sully” Sullivan, CFO member, former Board member Boulder Audubon > Chapter. > > Boulder, CO. > > > > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Colorado Birds" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en > * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. Include > bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate > * Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/CFO/Membership/ > --- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/20221102204042.B542C41B97E8%40mta1.indra.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/20221102204042.B542C41B97E8%40mta1.indra.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. Include bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate * Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/CFO/Membership/ --- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAGk944co6Kw44mjOCL02pqFx_VtGVwsxED9k_BEFr%3DGCEvGuaA%40mail.gmail.com.
