I would like to add my voice to John Harris re jet-setting twitchers. The so-called carbon offset is a feel good marketing ploy by the airlines anyway. Lets stop kidding ourselves and take responsibility for our polluting lifestyles. Flying long distances is bad, especially doing so for frivolous reasons. Go and twitch in your backyard and save the planet, birds included.
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If I jumped on my bike and rode to Broome it would probably take at least 20 days of hard twiddling and wear out several sets of tyres, and then there’s the return ride to think about too. Tyre manufacture leaves a heavy carbon footprint. Might do my waist a bit of good though, that’s if I got there at all. See my other mail as to why I’m not flying up there and hiring a car to run around in. Good luck to all the frivolous twitchers who do go for this first ever important bird sighting.
Tony
Unless birders are planning to charter their own flights, “carbon” is a specious argument – the scheduled airline services will fly regardless of the number of birders on board.