While up in the Skagit Flats last week, we commented on the photographers. For the most part, they seemed to be younger than many of the folks I run into who use binoculars and/or scopes. And anything that can get younger folks into birding is ok by me. For the most part, they were knowledgeable, willing to share what they were seeing, interested in other places to bird etc. Those are all things that I think of as Good Birding behavior.

Mary Ayres
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> Am I the only one who wants to puke whenever a brigade of "birders" show up
> with a bunch of $2000 cameras with big honkin'-ass lenses?
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> Aren't we birdWATCHERS first and foremost? Shouldn't we leave the picturing
> to the the likes of National Geographic? I just want to chase down a rare
> bird for once and find people with BINOCULARS ONLY.
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