[mou] Sax-Zim suggestion

[Earl Orf]

Sounds like a great idea to me, Laura.  I have enjoyed birding that area
many times and would be happy to contribute to a fund like that.

Earl Orf

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Subject: [mou] Sax-Zim suggestion

When I bird in Sax-Zim, I follow pretty much the same route every time, =
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don't really know where many of the houses with feeders are.  But I do =
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in on four feeders when I'm birding there.  Maybe those of us who bird=20
there should compile a list of the houses with feeders, and start a fund =
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give all the people with feeders a big bag of seed and a nice bird book =
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a thank-you for "using" their property for our own enjoyment, and a =
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asking if in the future they'd mind people birding there.  I think we =
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possibly develop some sort of magnet people could put on their =
mailboxes,=20
with binoculars for those who don't mind birders looking in, and =
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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=20
birds.  There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains =
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nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the
winter.

                                 --Rachel Carson


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