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Originally Posted by eeyore CHILLLLLLL
I'm not looking for argument here, and if you read my post above you would see that i quite clearly said that I was not having a pop at all twitchers just those that behave irresponsibly.
I have been a countryside proffesional for over ten years now as well as being an ardent birdwatcher and more recently a semi profesional wildlife photographer. I do understand fully what goes on at these twitches having seen them from both the birdwatchers point of view, and that of a site manager.
If you look at the excellent birdwatchers code posted on this very site , it clearly says that the interests of the bird should always be paramount. Some twitchers and bird racers seem to forget this in their eagerness to get a tick vis the running across the heath to see a stone curlew putting stoneys, woodlarks and wheatears off their broods.
ditto with the shining of lamps at the owl, yes okay they do chose to fly in artificial light sometimes but to iluminate it with a powerful torch when it has chosen to be in a darker habitat is not putting its interests first.
I have no interest at all in bashing twitchers or birders and I hope no one else here does either. As I clearly said in both my posts it is only the irresponsible minority who are to blame and irresponsible minorities exist in just about any field of human endeavour. |
Hi eeyore
I am certainly not having a go at you personally it's just that I have seen these type of threads quickly degenerate into twitching bashing. I wanted to try and put a stop to it if possible at the start of the thread.
You have picked up on the fact that Weeting Heath has been encroched and yes I know all about this, but the danger of putting out one problem like that suddenly makes a point that this is the norm, when it isn't.
What you also have to realise is that Weeting Heath is not really a twitch as the birds are resident there within the season they stay here. A twitch is a rare bird that is not in this country very often.
Anyway I am just leaving to twitch the Scops Owl.
John