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Originally Posted by eeyore  vis a vis proffesional and indeed responsible amateur photography you undoubtedly have a point oscar - although most pros dont generally push the envelope because licences are renewed yearly and irresponsible behaviour one year would lead to no licence the next which would more than outweigh any temporay gain in income
and there are as you rightly say many opportunities to photograph birds at the nest without disturbing them - however as far as wab goes it would be impossible for the mods and edds to tell how much disturance had been caused in getting any particular nest shot and thus i believe that stu has made the right decision that a blanket ban is the only practicably and ethically correct approach for the site to take |
And I have no arguement with that.
I did not know the WAB position on nest photography before this thread started and misinterpreted what was actually being asked. (now visualise big foot entering big gob!
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Apologies for the mistake.