I just received news from a friend in Pakenham that two photographers (I should more appropriately call them idiots with cameras) were found pulling back branches in the apple tree in which the Bullock¹s Oriole was feeding, apparently in order to get an unobstructed photograph of the bird that was only metres away. The oriole flew off and has not been seen since. With the Pakenham-Arnprior CBC being held on Boxing Day, that species would be an incredible one to have on the count. If the bird is not seen again I shall hold those idiots personally responsible. This kind of stupidity has to stop; perhaps when that kind of activity is observed for any bird, the person or persons should be reported to the police for cruelty to animals.
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