Photo/viewing blinds would be great! Especially since we can't all beg
Kevin to take us birding with him. Haha!
I wonder what the steps to getting this idea made into a reality would
be. Probably additional funds for building such a thing would be needed.
On 10/18/2015 6:53 PM, Kimberly Sucy wrote:
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
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