Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 03:24:11 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Norm Saunders Subject: Snowy Owl Situation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Part of the problem, as Mr. Mumford himself noted, is that people are going back, over and over, to see the owl. I believe Mr. Mumford said it was his eleventh trip? Yes, go see a rare bird. Enjoy it. But once you've seen it--stay away so as not to overtax the sensibilities of the folks that live there. The rest, not trespassing, not blocking the road, all of that should be common sense. Sadly, birders I saw up there were almost arrogant in the way they stood in the road in the face of oncoming cars. It is indeed a sad situation, one that when it arises makes me wonder at the ultimate value of MDOsprey and lists like it. Communication is wonderful but when it results in irresponsible behavior perhaps it is time to think about curtailing that communication. ======================= Norm Saunders Colesville, Montgomery County, MD marshhawk@worldnet.att.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================