Ha! Well Philip I like your optimistic, think the best of people approach, but
these were not uni students on a zoology prac. Nor were they school children
rewinding the habitat to enhance the ecological diversity, or philanthropist
developers surveying the site for a new Eco tourism lodge....if you want to
think that way. They were people with no environmental conscience stealing
fishing bait from a protected area. I suspect even you would have reached the
same conclusion had you been there.
S.
Sent from my iPhone
> On 24 Oct 2013, at 10:57 pm, "Philip Veerman" <> wrote:
>
> I also thought today, apart from maybe no connection between the guys at the
> car and the guys on the mudflats, the latter could have been people
> surveying intertidal organisms, just as us mob survey birds, except they
> mostly collect things. Such as uni students doing prac exercises. I suspect
> that during my 3rd zoology sessions on marine biology so long ago, I and
> other students could have looked as suspicious as Steve considered these
> people to be (if you wanted to think that way).
>
> Philip
>
> -----Original Message-----From:
> On Behalf Of Stephen Ransom
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 October 2013 9:23 AM To: Birding-Aus aus
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Nest robbing at Kurnell
>
> Hello all,
> Thanks to everyone for your comments. I agree that collecting for fishing
> bait in an area where they know it's not legal to do so is the most likely
> answer. It's not a good thing obviously, but I feel better about that than I
> did thinking they might be taking eggs.
>
> Kind regards,
> Steve.
>
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