Interesting that they are bemoaning the power of the birding lobby compared
to their harmless sporting lobby - only a week or two back we were
complaining about how strong the shooters were here (and at the risk of
great controversy is there much difference between shooting birds and
catching fish?) compared to our birding lobby.
2010/1/15 Alan Gillanders <>
> It is also interesting that a search for Malcolm Rigby and assault only
> shows up this article and one that quotes it. No local paper reported it.
> The BBC did not report it.
>
> Regards,
> Alan
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Dave Torr" <>
> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 7:10 AM
> To: "Tim Jones" <>
> Cc: "birding aus" <>
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] FW: [Surfbirdsnews] Derogatory article on
> twitchersin latest AnglingTimes
>
> To quote from the article
>>
>> "We kill birds. This is, of course, utter nonsense." Having just described
>> how they had (apparently legally) just killed a cormorant for daring to
>> eat
>> fish!
>>
>> 2010/1/14 Tim Jones <>
>>
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thought you might like to see the following (see link below in the
>>> chain).
>>> Just shows that there it doesn't matter which side you are on, there are
>>> always ignorant idiots who will stop at nothing to make a point. I like
>>> the
>>> clever tactical mention of 'cold clear and precise detail' in the first
>>> paragraph. It's possible that the second and third paragraphs are
>>> factually
>>> correct (although 'almost certainly a birdwatcher' might be just a tad
>>> presumptuous). After that? All cold, clear and precise detail? No wonder
>>> the
>>> guy hasn't got a job with a real newspaper (well maybe I could think of a
>>> couple of rags who would happily employ him).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If any of you rabid animal liberationist twitchers visit the UK, suggest
>>> you watch out for the retaliatory attacks from the reactionary FFFFF
>>> (factionary fascist fly-fishing front)!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Of course I am not personally condoning the attack itself...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Happy twitching!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.gofishing.co.uk/Angling-Times/Section/News--Catches/General-News/January-2010/Steve-Partner-The-dark-heart-of-twitching/
>>>
>>>
>>> From:
>>> To: ; ;
>>> ; ; ;
>>> ; ;
>>> ; ;
>>> ; ;
>>> ; ;
>>> ; ; ;
>>>
>>> Subject: Re: [Surfbirdsnews] Derogatory article on twitchers in latest
>>> AnglingTimes
>>> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:52:48 +0000
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm a fisherman almost as much as I am a birder, I naively thought the
>>> two
>>> went together as fundamentally its an understanding of nature, pursuing a
>>> quarry, and the being out in the great outdoors but it looks like I'm the
>>> exception to the rule!.
>>>
>>> Note how there is absolutely no evidence that this assault was done by a
>>> birdwatcher but they just presumed that the attacker was most probably a
>>> birdwatcher. Why?? No mention made of a scope or bins, almost certainly
>>> not
>>> a birder at all, and I will risk putting my head above the parapet and
>>> say
>>> that most birders are not that passionate about the plight of a single
>>> Cormorant either.
>>>
>>> Back now to my little bubble world - its nicer there!
>>>
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