If nothing else, think of the safety of the birds in that area. I wouldn't ever stop along there because I fear that he would resort to shooting birds in order to prevent people from birding along that road.
> Cindy and I were birding the bog on Saturday and made the mistake of > stopping (for a possible owl sighting) near a house on the Stickney > Road that has a sign that in part says "Trespassers will be violated...." > The owner walked out to the road (we were 200 + feet past his driveway) > and > asked us what we were doing there. I said we were birding, but he acted > confused and began confronting us, yelling that he had cameras watching > the > road. We just got in the car and left. Unknown to us, he was not through > "talking" to us and when we were several miles away he pulled up in his > car while we were driving and forced our car to stop. I use the word > forced, because I felt like I had to stop or he would try to run us off > the > road. We listened to him rant about being an ex-marine, prior killer of > enemies, Christian, etc. Eventually, he let us drive on. He mentioned > having problems with birders before so we wanted to be sure to remind > everyone not to stop anywhere near his house. I am considering contacting > the county Sheriff just to have the incident on record. > > -- > Chris Edwardson > Wood Technology Consulting Services > 31 E. Arrowhead Rd. > Duluth, MN 55803 > 218-724-6357 > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > -- Liz Stanley Bloomington, MN [email protected] Backyard weather and feedercam: http://www.overlookcircle.org/ Photo gallery: http://www.pbase.com/gymell/liz_favorites Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/lizmstanley ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
