RE: birds know when being watched

[Rob Geraghty <>]

--- On Sat, 4/4/09, Tony Ashton <> wrote:
If birds get jumpy under our eyes, how much more jumpy when under the vastly 
greater 'eyes' of binos? Or the huge monocular of scope or long lens? It's 
sometimes seemed to me flyaway birds reacted less to movement of user and 
binos, more to dislike of being scrutinised intensely by glaring glassy eyes.
Good point - there could often be a reflection off the lenses of binolulars or 
cameras which frighten the birds but we couldn't know about.

Rob




      
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