It happens! I made a similar request up here of occupants in a car (about
another bird, of course). They were not happy. Turned out they were plain
clothes police keeping a house under surveillance!
Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
PO Box 71
Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841
PhD candidate
Founding Member: Ecotourism Australia
Founding Member: Australian Federation of Graduate Women Northern Territory
043 8650 835
On 15 Jul 2014, at 10:49 am, Russell Woodford <> wrote:
> Further to my little lecture on perspective last night, another cautionary
> tale:
>
> Don't assume that vehicles parked in a known birding hotspot are looking for
> birds. Stopped at the well-publicized Banded Lapwing spot on Beach Rd at
> Avalon (Vic) this morning and noticed one vehicle was empty - then asked the
> man and woman in the second vehicle if they were looking for the Banded
> Lapwings (I hadn't been able to spot any as I drove out to WTP earlier). They
> gave me an odd look, said "No!" and wound their window back up. I didn't
> bother hanging round to try to spot the lapwings ....
>
>
>
> Russell Woodford
> Birding-Aus List Owner
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