Subject: [Tweeters] Gas Prices and Birding Trips
Date: Oct 25 21:42:44 2005
From: Scott Baron - brnpelican at yahoo.com


The lure of birding for me is awful strong. It's hard not to go. I've birded at least a couple of hours a week for the past several years, usually on a weekend and almost always away from home (at least 30 min. by automobile). Most of the driving I do, about 25,000 mi./yr., is bird related. The rising gasoline prices definitely eat into my income.

I am a renter in a suburban townhouse. If I lived near a park or had good habitat near my home, I wouldn't have to drive so much. I'd love to live in a house with forest behind it as I did when I was a kid in Connecticut but that's just not possible at this stage of my life. Having said all that, I too have cancelled bird outings in the past couple of months because gasoline prices have gotten so high. But because birding is such a passion, it's only been a couple of times that I have done so.

Scott Baron
Fairfax, Va.
brnpelican AT yahoo dot com
MaryK <CelloBird at seanet.com> wrote:
So, I'm wondering, how many of us in Tweeterland have curtailed our birding
trips due to the high price of gas?? Have you been carpooling more on
birding trips? Has the price of gas affected your birding at all?

Reason I ask, I answered some on-line poll sponsored by the local newspaper,
chatted with a reporter briefly re how high gas costs have affected how much
I drive, and wondered how other folks are doing. I've actually decided to
stay home a couple times because it was too far from payday for a spendy
trip.

Thanks,
Mary

Mary Klein
Bremerton WA
CelloBird at seanet.com


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