Birding economics

[Peter Shute <>]

When I visited the Edithvale hide when the Painted Snipe was around last year, 
it was quite crowded in the hide.  Yet the bird wasn't visible from there, it 
was only visible from the carpark, and only a handful were looking at it.

My impression of the people in the hide was that heaps of them had just dropped 
in because they were curious about the hide, or about birds, and didn't know 
about the snipe at all.  I don't know if that was a typical day at the hide, or 
if I just hit a busy period.

Peter Shute

Dave Torr wrote on Tuesday, 21 July 2009 1:02 PM:

> The obvious question Ross in view of some of the earlier discussions
> is how any visitors (birders and others) you attract (excluding when
> a Painted Snipe is in residence)?
>
> 2009/7/21 Ross Macfarlane <>
>
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