ROTFL, Steve. That cracked me up!
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Suzanne
Suzanne Williams Photography
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/swilli41/www
Florida, USA
--- In "Steve Pelikan"
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>
> Scott et. al.
>
> I've always believed in the "ounce of prevention" approach so, as
much
> as possible I tell and show people what I'm up to. By now most of
the
> park employees and rangers know who I am and what I'm doing. They
tell
> me that they sometimes they do get calls from park visitors who
report
> a spy or "creepy guy..." But it has never been a problem for me.
>
> My best story about avoiding possible problems by avoiding detection
> is from late one May when I was trying to record a Connecticut
Warbler
> in a bramble patch at the edge of a play area in a park. I'd slowly
> worked myself pretty close to the bird, and was hidden in the middle
> of a batch of blackberry shrubs (ouch!) when a guy walked over to
the
> edge of the play area --- about 4 meters from me --- to take a
leak.
>
> What do do? Stand up and say "Excuse me..." and freak the guy out"?
In
> the end I just stayed quite still and he never noticed me. He did,
sad
> to say, scare of the bird.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steve P
>
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