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Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:15
PM
Subject: [canberrabirds] True-life
adventures with Superb Parrots
I have never seen a better display of the fact
that there is little difference (as in this case) between a uniformed
person and an uninformed person as in Geoffrey's passage below.
extract:
After a minute or
so, a couple of uniformed persons burst (the only word I can think of
for it) into the foyer, evidently in pursuit of myself, about whom 'reports'
had been made. I shall probably offer a fuller report of the ensuing
remarkable conversation, which had some disturbing aspects, on another
occasion. For the present, I shall just say that I was told that I
would be 'stopped' if I attempted to use my camera, or
binoculars, outside but near the perimeter of the car-park. No
statement of the authority for that action was available. Of the 4 other
persons involved in the conversation, none had heard of Superb Parrots, or, I
sensed, even believed that such things existed.
It reminds me of the time during the COG atlas
that I was chased by police, somewhere along the gravel back road between
Tharwa and Ingledene when I had stopped to admire some courting shovelers in a
farm dam, and the time I wandered around the Belconnen labour club car park
near the tax office filming a very reclusive Regent Honeyeater.
Philip
