Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:13:28 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Joel Martin Subject: Re: Glaucous, Thayer's Gulls etc. in DC, 2/19 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit . . . a Park Police came along and said we needed a permit to use a camera with tripod on park property -- he didn't seem to understand the difference between cameras and telescopes. He was perfectly nice, as were we, but we moved on rather annoyed. (I do seem to recall this rule regarding cameras -- anyone else ever run into this problem?) Gail, It's my understanding that the issue is the tripod and not the camera (or scope). When I was doing video production with my community college, we did some shoots in the House office building. We were told that there were areas in DC where you couldn't use a tripod without a permit, the idea being that it could be used to attach a weapon. Joel Martin Catonsville, MD jcdlmartin@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================