Tweeters and the rest of the world need more compassionate and caring people like Margaret not less of them. That was a very rude response.

Diane Weinstein
Issaquah
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott R a y<mailto:mryakima at gmail.com>
To: Tweeters<mailto:tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] at #$%^& starlings


Please.

On Jan 24, 2008 8:27 PM, Margaret Parkinson <margparkie at comcast.net<mailto:margparkie at comcast.net>> wrote:
> Thank you for your apology, Wilson. Nice to read someone with some
> awareness.
>
> I am unsubscribing from Tweeters this evening.
>
> Obviously, many members are not sensitive or even thoughtful enough about
> this matter; nor do they care enough about birds to consider non-lethal
> alternatives to problems.
>
> My position is the same as Dennis Paulson's when he wrote: "I often defend
> starlings to people who despise them, saying it's our fault they are here,
> not theirs, and that's entirely true."
>
> Anyway, although I have learned a lot from Tweeters and I have met some
> great people--I also am no longer willing to come across these horrible
> posts. As important as conservation is (and I consider myself a
> conservationist) the lives of individuals (human and non-human species) are
> also important. I am sorry to find that some birders do not value the
> individual lives of some birds.
>
> Margaret Parkinson
> University District, Seattle
>
>
>


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Scott R a y
Aflac District Coordinator
Yakima, WA
mryakima at gmail dot com
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