To understand where Jan Vafa's post is coming from, check out the usenet
newsgroup "uwash.friends-of-campus-cats". If you do that, you will see
that these folks think that the Fill is meant to be a haven for feral cats,
that tweeters has been the subject of a series of alarmist posts in that
group, and that we are a bunch of well-meaning, but misinformed birdwatchers.
I expect we will be "educated" on this issue shortly.

David Wright
dwright at u.washington.edu