Good point Peter
I've often noticed when on the tractor or ride-on mower that animals such as
wallabies, wild dogs and birds like Magpies and Butcherbirds are far less
likely to flee than if I were on foot.
The birds are probably looking for a feed from disturbed insects and other
small creatures, but I can recall a couple of times when slashing, coming
within five metres of a wild dog which paid no attention to the tractor, but
when I made to dismount it ran away very quickly.
Perhaps the animals know that we're too involved with our machine to be a
threat.
No matter how careful I am to be inaudible and invisible when birding, the
birds are almost always aware of me before I am of them.
Tony Gibson
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> On 17 Feb 2015, at 18:17, Peter Shute <> wrote:
>
> This article from the New York Times discusses the effects of recreation on
> nature. Surprisingly, one study found that snowmobiles had less effect on
> moose than cross country skiers - the animals were less afraid of the
> machines they could hear coming and which soon left, than the skiers who they
> couldn't hear as well and which stayed longer.
>
> Not a very Australian example, but it makes you wonder if we birders might
> have more effect than we think, wandering slowly and quietly through the bush
> looking at stuff.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/opinion/sunday/leaving-only-footsteps-think-again.html<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/opinion/sunday/leaving-only-footsteps-think-again.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=1>
>
> Peter Shute
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