Tweeters,

We got 33 different bird species on the new public trail on the east
side of Lake Sammamish yesterday. Then we called the city of Renton.

I hope this is not seen as beating the proverbial dead horse. (Is it
better to beat live horses?) Jill of Renton's city planning department
states that, as best as she can tell from her maps, one does not cross
Boeing property getting to the mouth of the Cedar River. Not where
North 6th street connects with the public Riverside Drive or from the
end of Riverside Dr. when walking on to the kayak rental business.

Actually it seems Boeing has to cross public property twice in order
get their product to the airport. To me that seems only reasonable and
we should allow them to do so. No doubt legal easements exist. We
certainly wouldn't want them moving away to some place like Oklahoma
now would we.

On the good Boeing side they are in negotiations with the city for a
connecting public boardwalk.

Yes there are security concerns. But a tweeter looking at a gull on a
roof is not one of them. All of the confiscated toothpaste and
tweezers, and all of the foot fungus spread at security screenings
doesn't make my wife and I feel any safer either.

If America the beautiful is to remain the home of the brave and the
land of the free, we the people probably need to show a little more of
that brave.

Larry and Leora Schwitters
Issaquah


On Jan 30, 2007, at 4:13 AM, Paul Sieracki wrote:

> To All:
> ?
> I have not spoken up on this, but maybe all birders in the Seattle
> area should go and point their scopes
> at Boeing.?Take pictures and post them on the net, not to mention
> write letters to the newspaper.? What is written below
> is nothing but paranoia of corporate America worried about their
> secrets being stolen.? This is as bad as folks on a local CBC being
> stopped by the police for bird watching.
> ?
> Nothing is more irritating than someone me telling me how to behave
> with my scope and camera on public land.
> ?
> Protect your rights...Happy Birding!
> ?
> Paul Sieracki
> 208.448.2790
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