The whole "out of the car" issue is why I wish there were photo/viewng blinds in the area across the road, where people could pull off the main drive into the old trail parking lot and share scopes, provide assistance, and take photos without obstructing the view of passing cars or disturbing wildlife unduly. As someone who has led field trips with a caravan of cars and who has attempted to point out bird locations to new birders using bad bins while talking over FRS radios, this would be a HUGE improvement! Eaton Marsh in particular is a wonderful shorebird spot, but horrible for new birders without great optics or fully developed spotting skills.
And I saw baby Rails this year too - outside my car, in the designated viewing spot at Benning Marsh. -kimberly On Oct 18, 2015, at 5:23 PM, Marie P. Read wrote: > As one those darned bird photographers, and at risk of being labelled a > killjoy, I feel must make a comment here. > > Kevin wrote: > <I constantly find cool birds along the wildlife drive and hope someone will > stop and ask me what I’m looking at. If I could, I’d get out of my car (on > the passenger side) and flag people down to look at baby Virginia Rails or a > Least Bittern.> > > My heart sinks at this, because I see those baby Virginia Rails and > definitely that shy Least Bittern immediately fleeing at the sight of a lot > of people suddenly and excitedly exiting their cars. Unless the birds were at > a distance and the flagger were using a scope. > Sigh! > > Marie > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
