Yes some people do find it hard to accept that others aren't as able as
themselves.
Some years ago in New Zealand i went with a guide looking for Kiwi. I'm fit
physically but have moderate hearing loss and back then i didn't have hearing
aids. I was told to be super quiet and listen. The guide became incredibly
frustrated that i couldn't hear the birds rustling through the undergrowth
apparently right in front of us. I wasn't permitted to respond lest i scare the
birds away yet he kept frustratedly telling me how one was right there and just
took a dump. He kept telling me to "just concentrate really hard!"
He of course had super human hearing and couldn't understand that
"concentrating really hard" doesn't improve ones hearing, in the same way that
concentrating won't cause a paraplegic to start walking!
We did finally see a Kiwi but his attitude and lack of understanding did put a
real damper on the night.
Cheers
Dave
On 25/10/2013, at 11:56 AM, "Tony Russell" <> wrote:
> Interesting that you have raised this Denise. I have been out with some
> guides , well known ones too, who seem to have no concern about or
> understanding of their clients limitations. Some of them race around at a
> pace difficult for others to keep up with and if the guide notices at all
> can become impatient and often instruct people to "keep up", not realising
> that this can be impossible for them.
> Others can command elderly people to "get down on the ground" ( to look
> under bushes), as though they were teenagers, and not acknowledging that
> this can also often be an impossible requirement, and that getting up again
> is usually a worse ordeal than getting down. I can recall two different
> guides who did this to people on trips I've been on. It puts one off from
> ever using those guides again or recommending anyone else to. Some guides
> unrealistically expect clients to be as physically active as they are. Some
> people may dismiss these problems as unimportant but a responsible guide
> should develop ways of showing consideration for their older clients and
> maybe generating some return business.
>
> Tony, the aging crock.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Denise
> Goodfellow
> Sent: Friday, 25 October 2013 10:19 AM
> To: Birding Aus
> Cc: ; Peter Wood; Ronda Green BSc(Hons); Robyn Stark;
> ; Maree Kerr; Kev
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Hot weather and birders
>
> Recently the issue of tourism and hot weather was raised on Radio National.
>
> Quite often I've been in the field with other guides who've either taken
> people out in very hot, humid weather or who said they would have no
> problems doing so. One was a bus driver (who'd just started guiding as
> well) who, if he'd had his way, would have taken a group of American
> university students on a hike around the Kakadu sandstone in such weather.
> The professor in charge agreed with him and it was only after I (their
> guide/lecturer) refused to go that he backed down.
>
> On another occasion a senior lady showed obvious signs of heat stress after
> a long hike, but the guide appeared not to notice.
>
> This issue is even more urgent now, with more hot days (we've probably had a
> record number of fire ban days this Dry Season).
>
> So please, if you're a visiting birder raise this issue with your guide or
> operator.
>
> Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
> PO Box 71, Darwin River,
> NT 0841
> 043 8650 835
>
> PhD candidate, SCU
> Vice-chair, Wildlife Tourism Australia
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