The Amherst Island trip was last weekend. My report was suitably but coincidentally discreet. While there we heard about abuse, and saw the new posted rules. Our consensus was that the rules should be stated more boldly and it would be good to have someone enforcing them. We saw several photographers ignoring the 5 meter rule and one ignoring the no-flash rule. I told the flash user to stop, but he made no reply as he left. Perhaps he did not even speak English, being of east Asian descent. The bird being subjected to close observers and flashes did open its eyes and move its head, which was more evidence of disturbance than the others showed. There were plenty of people in the woods, more cars on Saturday -- including a small school bus -- than Linda had seen before. Thanks to Ann's keen eyes, we saw a total of 3 individual owls in the woods, but most people only saw 2. I enjoyed it, but don't need to return soon. --Dave Nutter
On Friday, February 12, 2010, at 07:20AM, "Meena Haribal" <m...@cornell.edu> wrote: > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
