[mou] Sax-Zim suggestion

[Laura Erickson]

When I bird in Sax-Zim, I follow pretty much the same route every time, and 
don't really know where many of the houses with feeders are.  But I do peek 
in on four feeders when I'm birding there.  Maybe those of us who bird 
there should compile a list of the houses with feeders, and start a fund to 
give all the people with feeders a big bag of seed and a nice bird book as 
a thank-you for "using" their property for our own enjoyment, and a letter 
asking if in the future they'd mind people birding there.  I think we could 
possibly develop some sort of magnet people could put on their mailboxes, 
with binoculars for those who don't mind birders looking in, and binoculars 
with a red circle/slash for those who DO mind.

Does that sound like a reasonable approach?  Any other suggestions?



Laura Erickson
Duluth, MN


Producer, "For the Birds" radio program
<http://www.lauraerickson.com/>

There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of 
birds.  There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of 
nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.

                                 --Rachel Carson