canonloader
18th of June 2009 (Thu), 14:12
This thread caused a spark (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=709905) to snap into my head a few minutes ago. Let's ask that this be made a sticky thread and the more people who join this thread to receive e-mails to it, the more who will eventually send mails to worthy campaigns. Enough e-mails get sent, maybe they will eventually listen?
From that link above, yes, why not allow hand feeding of Scrub Jays, since we are stealing their habitat from them, shouldn't we then feed them? As a participant feeder at our local feeder in the woods, I see absolutely no detriment to the birds that are being hand fed there. Hand feeding Jays will at worst, acclimate them to close contact with humans and in the end, make it easy for them to learn to live among us, where of course, people in houses are going to also feed them at their feeders. The best of both worlds.
Another campaign I would like to see work is those fake plastic flower looking contraptions (http://www.backyardbird.com/bco212.html) that you screw onto a jelly jar to trap and kill orioles who go into the emptying jar for the last bits of jelly and get trapped and die a horrible death.
And how about mesh bags? And fishing line and tackle and all that damned plastic in the ocean? Enough people from all over mailing the appropriate offices can make a difference.
From that link above, yes, why not allow hand feeding of Scrub Jays, since we are stealing their habitat from them, shouldn't we then feed them? As a participant feeder at our local feeder in the woods, I see absolutely no detriment to the birds that are being hand fed there. Hand feeding Jays will at worst, acclimate them to close contact with humans and in the end, make it easy for them to learn to live among us, where of course, people in houses are going to also feed them at their feeders. The best of both worlds.
Another campaign I would like to see work is those fake plastic flower looking contraptions (http://www.backyardbird.com/bco212.html) that you screw onto a jelly jar to trap and kill orioles who go into the emptying jar for the last bits of jelly and get trapped and die a horrible death.
And how about mesh bags? And fishing line and tackle and all that damned plastic in the ocean? Enough people from all over mailing the appropriate offices can make a difference.