Hello all, Thanks to everyone for your comments. I agree that collecting for fishing bait in an area where they know it’s not legal to do so is the most likely answer. It’s not a good thing obviously, but I feel better about that than I did thinking they might be taking eggs. Kind regards, Steve. =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================
Ha! Well Philip I like your optimistic, think the best of people approach, but these were not uni students on a zoology prac. Nor were they school children rewinding the habitat to enhance the ecological diversity, or philanthropist developers surveying the site for a new Eco tourism lodge….if you want to think that way. They were people with no environmental conscience stealing fishing bait from a protected area. I suspect even you would have reached the same conclusion had you been there. S. Sent from my iPhone =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================
I also thought today, apart from maybe no connection between the guys at the car and the guys on the mudflats, the latter could have been people surveying intertidal organisms, just as us mob survey birds, except they mostly collect things. Such as uni students doing prac exercises. I suspect that during my 3rd zoology sessions on marine biology so long ago, I and other students could have looked as suspicious as Steve considered these people to be (if you wanted to think that way). Philip [mailto:birding-aus-bounces@lists.vicnet.net.au] On Behalf Of Stephen Ransom Sent: Wednesday, 23 October 2013 9:23 AM To: Birding-Aus aus Hello all, Thanks to everyone for your comments. I agree that collecting for fishing bait in an area where they know it’s not legal to do so is the most likely answer. It’s not a good thing obviously, but I feel better about that than I did thinking they might be taking eggs. Kind regards, Steve. =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) http://birding-aus.org ===============================