Recently, as part of the Backyard Bird Count, Dave Gillett, Heidi
Geist and I birded the campus of the Virginia Institute of Marine
Science, where we work or are students. The folks at the Coleman
Bridge toll booth called the county sheriff on us because we were
"acting suspicious and had binoculars." After we convinced the
sheriff we were harmless, we walked down under the Coleman Bridge to
look for water birds. On the way back up the hill to VIMS, a state
policeman pulled up and asked us if we had been under the bridge with
binoculars and cameras. Someone had called the state police and also
reported us as suspicious. We had just convinced him that we were
harmless birders when a second state trooper pulled up. We've become
a paranoid society!
--
Eugene M. Burreson
Professor
Department of Environmental and Aquatic Animal Health
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
College of William and Mary
PO. Box 1346 (for mail)
Rte. 1208, Greate Road (For UPS, FedEx)
Gloucester Point, VA 23062 USA
Phone: 804-684-7015
Fax: 804-684-7796
Email: gene@xxxxxxxx
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