This morning at about 9:00 I was headed to Heron Pond to see the Yellow-crowned Night Heron and witnessed another incident of bad birder behavior. Two birders in the parking lot were just ahead of me and headed to the North shore. I was going at it from the south shore and I met an experienced birder who had just seen the bird (within the half hour) and gotten a photo and she volunteered to take me right where she had seen it. Then from across the pond we saw the two birders I had originally seen at the parking lot crawling down the bank almost to the shoreline right where the bird had been seen.
We could not find it again with my scope and her good camera plus another man came up who had also seen it from that spot just before. We stood there for half an hour and the two were there for quite awhile but the heron did not show obviously driven into the reeds. Amazingly, some other people who did not appear to be birders but had a camera also crawled down the bank.
Folks, we've got to get a handle on this. Please do not approach birds, play tape, or do anything that will disturb them. In addition if you see something, say something. Thank you. I assure you that if those birders were not on the other side of the pond, they would have gotten some feedback from me! Sorry for this long post but it's important.
Kathleen "Sully" Sullivan, CFO member, former Board member Boulder Audubon Chapter.
Boulder, CO.
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