I agree with Denise on this. It's the behaviour of a few frantic and
irresponsible birders that has caused many of the otherwise good birding
locations to be closed off. I don't blame the landowners or the govt., I'd
close my land too if there were too many thoughtless intruders - and I've
had some too, just wandering through without so much as a by-your-leave.
Birders, bushwalkers, shooters - and they don't even apologise when
apprehended.
Tony
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From:
On Behalf Of Denise
Goodfellow
Sent: Tuesday, 19 February 2013 8:08 AM
To: Chris Shaw; Birding Aus
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Brown Songlarks and Fences
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
P
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 thinkŠ 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 airportŠ justifiable fence I
> might addŠ but birds have a great freedom to go where they pleaseŠ 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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