I agree, and I wonder if this is sometimes the reason why birds fly off the
moment you lower the binoculars to reach for a camera or notebook. I also
suspect that they might not regard binoculars as being eyes, so perhaps it
could help to lower ones eyes before lowering the binoculars.
That Brown Falcon photo is still available in the archives, by the way, at:
http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/html/birding-aus/2008-04/msg00594.html
but you'll need to save it as a jpg file before being able to view it.
Peter Shute
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From: on behalf of Wendy
Sent: Tue 6/05/2008 11:12 PM
To: Birding-aus
Cc:
Subject: Do you think birds know when you are watching?
YEP!
I've always found it helps (when stalking birds or other animals for photos)
to not actually look at them but watch with my peripheral vision. I am much
more successful with this strategy,
Sort-a on this topic, I was rather taken, by the back-view shot of a raptor
for ID help (IDed as a Brown Falcon by Lawrie C), posted by gerald46 on
29/4. I'd not seen a shot like this before and was struck by the
eye/face-like appearance of these markings. I wondered at the time, if this
helped reduce harassment of such birds by other birds?Like the idea of eyes
on the back of your hat helping reduce Magpies swooping.
Wendy
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