I had a similar incident back in the
Atlassing days. I was wandering around a patch of bush along the Kings Hwy, when I was stopped by a
man in a car on a farm track on the property. Turned out he was not a
farmer, as I initially thought, but a member of the local nudists club, who
owned the land so that club activities could take place out of public sight.
Given that I was carrying binoculars AND a camera, I had to do some heavy
explaining to get out of that one…
Brendan
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From: Philip Veerman
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Sent: Monday, 21 May 2007 4:31 PM
To: Leo Berzins;
Subject: [canberrabirds] Newline
gate and brown treecreepers
That is like an incident that happened to me
many years ago (during the COG Atlas), when I stopped to watch the ducks (and
have some lunch) on the driveway beside someone's farm dam (On I think
Williamsdale Road between Monaro Highway & Burra. I didn't get out of my
car but there was a group of shovelers indulging in some entertaining courting
activity). Some half hour later a police car zoomed up and then I was asked
what I was doing and told of concern about my activities. I heard the story
that there had recently been some problems with people shooting at the horses
or something like that.
We do need to be careful. People don't always think
we are obviously just looking for / at birds. Not to mention that some people
don't want us there, looking for / at birds. No doubt there are many
stories like that.
