Tweets,

Diane Bagues wrote:

>My question: What about the birds and squirrels in the tree that >you
don't even know are there who are looking at you--and at the >laser
which could still blind them?


I DID NOT suggest shining this at any animal, only using it as a
directional pointer. Michael Price made the excellent point of not
trying to use this tool in a crowd. For any possibility of damage
(which is pretty remote) the laser/light must be focused directly on the
eye at a pretty small range of angles - this is not one of those the
light is so intense it will blind you if you look at it things.
If you don't think you can use the tool safely then don't do it. It is
however an excellent method of indicating general proximity.

There's probably a lot less risk to animals when using this tool
properly than there is to animals from your automobile on the trip to
see them - or feeding them in poorly maintained spaces (re: the
salmonella thread), or study casualties, etc.

Then there are always the incidents of binocular fires...nice sunny day,
stretch out, put binocs down, focus that light and poof!

>Rob Conway wrote:
>
>3) Are there good uses for these things for birders? OH YES!! Anyone
>>who birds with others should have one of these. It is a hell of a lot
>>easier to shine the light on the ground and then follow the beam as
>>someone moves it to point at that "saw-whet in the 4th fir tree in the
>>mixed grove of conifers on the right-past the rocks in the middle of
the
>>creek-the ones that look like a nestful of eggs missing one on the
>>left-about half way out on that branch that looks like a dog lifting
its
>>leg - right where there's no bark on the top but on the bottom".
>
>
>Diane Bagues
>Milwaukie, Oregon
>dbagues at teleport.com
>


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