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Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 00:08:17 EDT
From: <TRONTHORN...>
Subject: [pen-bird] Harassment of birds at Radio Rd.
Radio Road has become one of a premiere locations to photograph
birds. Most photographers are level minded and stay in their boundary,
but there are the ones as today at Radio Road, who step out of the
boundary to the point of harassing the birds. What is the point of
photographers walking underneath the colony of nesting Snowy Egrets,
Black-crowned Night Herons and scaring the birds off of their nest in
the trees next to the wastewater treatment plant. Does this even cross
their mind that the American Crows are nesting at the plant and will
predate on the eggs and young of the colony. What other adverse affects
will be on the colony when the birds are away from their nest site. It is
always unfortunate that there will always be some bad apples that ruin it
for the rest of everybody. When this type of harassment is observed, the
harassers should be spoken too about the welfare of the colony and also
not to ruin it for the rest of everybody.
Ron Thorn