Date: 2/8/13 2:06 pm
From: <altomomatic...>
Subject: [MDBirding] The Soldiers Delight Problem


I'm puzzled. Many subscribers to this list were full of sound and fury over a report of an owl roost tree being disturbed -- presumably by a photographer, but then fell silent when the actual culprit was identified. That actual culprit being an ineffective DNR and an over-zealous utility.

Of the two -- photographer versus a state agency and a utility -- isn't the fact of the latters' actions far more disturbing? (I think so.) And what should we do about it? Must the sound and fury elicited by the original report of a disturbance signify nothing? I would hope that DNR and BGE be held responsible for their lack of effective communication.

This is a recurring problem and it's not going away.

Tom Stock, frequent visitor to Soldiers Delight
Silver Spring, Md.


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