I'm with Steve and Jon. Steve Weston, Scott Meyer and others report many, many sightings. Birders should be grateful for that rather than begrudge the rare instance where they deem the interest of the bird trumps that of the mob.
Kurt Schulzetenberg Ramsey County ----- Original Message ----- From: Jon Swanson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:24:29 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [mou-net] Owl locations I think he gave the location well enough. These are by no means rare or uncommon birds and I think he was letting us know they are around and for all of us to go out and help and find some. I think he shares plenty and does not need to give us GPS coordinates to his sightings. 90% of the joy of birding is finding them. He went out and found them not to serve all of MOU but for his pleasure and he was sharing that. So lets all go out and find some and report them if we so desire!! Sent from my iPhone On Mar 3, 2013, at 3:00 PM, "Fr. Paul" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sure this thread will be deleted as here we go again with owl locations, > but my two cents are with Rachel. I can understand if someone wants to let > others know of a unique bird or just be contacted via e-mail, but if someone > is going to keep it to themselves entirely it's hard not to take it as > gloating. I see a bird on here, I try to find it - that's the whole point of > the list to me, not to hear of someone's great find, but to share in that by > taking the time and trying to find a bird and get some nice photographs. I'm > not sure how many people even know this list exists and think most on here > would be respectful. Again, not posting it publicly but saying "Please > e-mail me" or something like that is fine, but not sharing at all begs the > question why share in the first place? Ego or gloating? > > Regards, > Fr. Paul Kammen > > -----Original Message----- > From: Minnesota Birds [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Crownhart, > Rachel > Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 2:08 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [mou-net] Owl locations > > I will second this. And if you aren't going to share your locations what is > the point in posting. Keep it to your self. > > Rachel Crownhart > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 3, 2013, at 1:06 PM, "Sandy Kuder" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Because I use calls and others use tapes to get the owls to respond, I > want to minimize their exposure to disturbance. And using artificial calls > of any kind is not a disturbance? >> >> As it was, we exposed the Screech Owl to predation by a Great-horned. > I'm always amazed at how much credit people give themselves. >> >> I'm sorry, but this is extremely irritating. If I'm not mistaken, the > MOU-listserve is about sharing information. Call me naive, but I believe > mostbirders understand and have some ethics. It is a past-time or passion > that is near and dear to a lot of heartsand no one I've ever met birding, > would ever jeopardize their well-being. >> >> Just my two cents worth. >> >> SandyKuder, >> Anoka County >> >> >> >> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Steve Weston <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Sunday, March 3, 2013 11:54 AM >>> Subject: [mou-net] Owl locations >>> >>> Because I use calls and others use tapes to get the owls to respond, >>> I want to minimize their exposure to disturbance. I am sorry, but >>> will not be sharing my locations. As it was, we exposed the Screech >>> Owl to predation by a Great-horned. I will share locations of the >>> large owls that are visible by day. >>> >>> -- >>> Steve Weston >>> On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN >>> [email protected] >>> >>> ---- >>> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net >>> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html >> >> ---- >> Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net >> Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
