I was going to stay out of this one, but I think Bob's response is so
sensible--just plain sensible--that I wanted to second it!
Steve Cagan
Cuyahoga County
On 12/19/13 5:39 PM, "Robert Hinkle" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Letıs get real, folks. The ABA ³rules² are guidelines, and the "no feeding
> raptors² part was meant to suggest that photographers and trip leaders
> (mostly) who would bait raptors for their own purposes and financial gain
> shouldnıt be doing that. You and I both know that the vast majority of snowy
> owls coming down from Canada will starve to death this winter due to their
> inability to find suitable prey in suitable quantity to sustain them. The
> snowys are dumber than a box of rocks most of the time and the normal
> densities of their northern prey, such as lemmings and arctic voles, are
> higher where they came from than the densities of anything on the Cleveland
> Breakwall or almost anywhere else down here. And we have more snow than the
> place they came from. Huntingıs easier there, tho perhaps a bit more windy and
> dark. Do folks REALLY think the break wall and airport are crawling with big
> tasty rats 365/24/7? The Ohio open field habitat matches their natal habitat,
> so thatıs where they sit and patiently hunt, or try to, and eventually most
> starve to death. They already arrive stressed and underweight. My personal
> sense of birding ethics says that if Joe has a snowy owl out in the boondocks
> where no one else will mob it with cameras and bins, and he wants to feed the
> thing, then BRAVO to Joe for doing it. Should it be done on Burkeıs runways?
> Probably not. This no doubt sounds like ³situational ethics² to some of you,
> and I freely admit that it is, but I for one am not offended by Joeıs feeding
> ³his² snowy owl any more than I object to you putting suet out for your
> Carolina wrens. Blind obedience to a set of ³rules² without questioning the
> context in which they were created is folly. And Joe, I second the opinion of
> a previous poster. Just donıt tell anyone next time.
>
> Bob Hinkle
> Chief Naturalist Emeritus
> Solon, Ohio
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