Re: [Paddlewise] Any birders out there?

I'm also a birder (>600 US species), but I don't find the birds to be
very tame, unless you're comparing a kayak to a stinkpot.  It seems the
ducks around here are habituated to think "duck hunter" whenever they see
a low profile watercraft.

Darrell Lee
Alameda, CA
snorkler_at_juno.com

On Tue, 16 May 2000 08:12:32 Wes Boyd <boydwe_at_dmci.net> writes:
> At 11:11 AM 5/16/00 +0700, Dave Williams wrote:
> 
> >I was wondering how many of you paddlewisers are serious birders?  
> I find
> >birding from a kayak to be very fruitful.  It seems that birds tend 
> to allow
> >me to get closer when paddling than when walking through the 
> jungle.  Do any
> >of you find this to be true?
> I'm not a serious birder, but my experiences in getting close to 
> birds and
> observing them from the kayak are getting me close to being one. I 
> made the
> comment in one of my essays that the inability (or lack of interest) 
> in
> telling little brown birds apart are about all that keeps me from 
> becoming
> one.
> 
> -- Wes
> 
>
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