Hi Chris
That's what's happened at sewage ponds in Palmerston and Darwin, and after
nearly thirty years of going there (and I was largely responsible for the
Leanyer Ponds making birders welcome in the first place) it's no longer
tenable for me to take international birders there.
A major reason according to my contacts in management was the behaviour of a
few birders who broke the rules. That's why birders searching for Red
Goshawk at Mataranka are not particularly welcome any more.
Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
1/7 Songlark Street,
Bakewell, NT 0832
043 8650 835
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On 18/2/13 9:16 PM, "Chris Shaw" <> wrote:
> One of the biggest annoyances to a bird watcher is the number of barriers put
> up to keep them away; whether it's closing off tracks, national parks, water
> treatment plants, salt works or whatever. I think it's a national pastime in
> Australia telling other people what to do and what to think? what do you
> think? When I go bird watching in Norway and Scotland in particular they have
> laws allowing access to the public to all land other than what is not in the
> public safety. And many other places in the world seem to be the same. I'm
> wondering whether we are the most rigidly bureaucratic society in the world;
> and one that wishes more than is normal to enforce our own opinions and values
> on others?
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> Anyway all this muttering is because I took some photos of a Brown Songlark
> sitting on a fence around an airport? justifiable fence I might add? but birds
> have a great freedom to go where they please? not us it seems.
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> Anyway the Brown Songlarks are on my blog.
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> Chris Shaw
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> Mobile 0409 675912
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> My blog - "Top Birds and Everyfing" can be found on the following link
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> http://topbirdsandeveryfing.typepad.com/top-birds-everyfing/
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