I need to answer to this recent post........ I've been watching birds since I was five, I have been a photographer since I was about 14 years old, I also have a degree in natural resources specializing in avian conservation. I take huge offense to comments like Tom's. Yes, I have a big lens, but I also have a big understanding of how I impact birds.
Birders and photographers alike can exhibit bad behavior. Please do not make broad statements about photographers bad behavior when the same can be said about birders too. If you need proof, I'll revisit behavior exhibited by birders in Texas when a Collared Forest Falcon showed up. Birders trampled through huge expanses of rare and endangered habitat chasing after a bird and never let it rest. Also, there have been recent photos on websites that show "birders" with point and shoot cameras capturing images of rare birds at close range; i.e. boreal owl. No disrespect intended, but to label photographers as a whole is just downright wrong. In my 35 years of birding I have seen bad behavior on both sides. Regards, Terry Ornithologists AND photographer >I'm tired of seeing them out on > HWY7, with their > monstrous lenses and total disrespect for other > birders and the birds. > There's been a lot of bad behavior by photographers > this year. What a > bunch of selfish bastards. > > Tom Auer > Duluth, MN > _______________________________________________ > mou-net mailing list > [email protected] > http://cbs.umn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mou-net > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
