Syd,
I have no qualms with the organisation, nor those within it. As a matter of fact
i quite enjoy the debates,side issues,opinions etc,etc. It makes for an all
pervading knowledge base whether it be of a scientific nature or otherwise. I
also have the utmost respect for those "stalwarts" or fogys, as they have given
us individual gifts of understanding in respect to all things avian, and i
believe the continuity of this attitude will hold all "29 year-olds'", like
myself in good stead for advancement into an uncertain future!.
Kind Regards,
Mark Kliene.
Syd Curtis wrote:
> >From your email:
> >
> >>The old fogy element at the RAOU
> >>need to get their brains out of mothballs and learn how to live with us
> >>proletarians - twitchers have enthusiasm and money.
> >
> > The fogy component of BA has been declining towards extinction. I can't
> > see any around me now, although there may be the odd mummified corpse in
> > the archives.
>
> Hello Hugo,
>
> Just a quick note to let you know that away from Birds Australia H/Q
> at least one old fogy still survives.
>
> If not of his generation, I at least knew Alec Chisholm as a friend for 40
> years or so. And I recognised the RAOU as an honored institution with
> conservation principles worthy of support from its inception in 1901. The
> title "Birds Australia" (may Chisholm stop turning in his grave) does not
> carry the same connotation of being a serious scientific organisation,
> rather is it suggestive of a nation-wide supplier of young female
> companionship.
>
> Fortunately for me, there is no shortage of worthy nature conservation
> causes to support; fortunately for Birds Australia, my views appear not to
> be shared by the current generation of persons interested in birds, whether
> twitchers or otherwise.
>
> Syd Curtis
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