Subject: [Tweeters] Birding and photography education activism
Date: Feb 9 12:38:51 2012
From: Wilson Cady - gorgebirds at juno.com
I agree that education is a key component of protecting birds and habitat but the onus should be on the photographers to "police" their own group to lessen the growing divide between birders and photographers. Wilson Cady
Skamania County, WA
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From: "Rob Sandelin" <nwnature1 at gmail.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Tweeters] Birding and photography education activism
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:10:11 -0800
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">Seems most likely that WOS or Audubon, both whom have good representation on this list might want to take on on-site rare bird disturbance education, whether it be docents, or handouts or signage. This is an on going, recurring issue that either of the above organizations, or perhaps some other, could organize actual action with instead of email sniping and bitching which accomplishes nothing. If the goal is to protect birds from unreasonable disturbance, on-site with the birds is where to do it. The growth in both photography and birding makes disturbance almost a certainty. Taking some ownership doing some on site work would be good for the birds, and also for the organization involved. Rob SandelinNaturalist, Writer, TeacherSnohomish County