[va-richmond-general] Re: Purple Martin Festival

Jim and all,

The number of people at the festival this weekend should not be a problem.  
Festival organizers are certainly in tune with maintaining a certain distance.  
There are hordes of cars and people down there almost every weekend night to go 
to the restaurants and taverns since birds first colonized that roost two years 
ago.  This includes people going in and out of their cars directly under the 
roost trees   These birds initially entered an area with major people traffic.  
So as long as people are not sitting under the trees clapping their hands as 
has happened until the bird lovers began to get down there in force and give 
the other locals some education.  There have been groups of more than 30 roost 
watchers this year and it hasn't hampered the birds at all.  The only 
disruption appears to be the red-tail that has learned it can sit in the tree 
and ambush the martins as they come in to roost.  

Mike

Mike Wilson
Center for Conservation Biology
College of William and Mary
PO Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
phone: 757-221-1649
fax: 757-221-1650
email:mdwils@xxxxxx
www.ccb-wm.org  


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Blowers 
  To: warfield101@xxxxxxxxxxx ; audubon listserve 
  Cc: jimvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; jimvb@xxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 9:10 PM
  Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: Purple Martin Festival


  There is going to be a festival this Saturday. Huge hordes of people and cars 
will be descending on the 17th street area. Will that scare off the purple 
martins so that they fly away and never return?

  Jim Blowers




    -----Original Message----- 
    From: Al & Linda Warfield 
    Sent: Jul 21, 2008 7:54 PM 
    To: audubon listserve 
    Subject: [va-richmond-general] Purple Martin Festival 


    needs a few more volunteers. There is an informational meeting for 
volunteers Tues. July 22 at 7:30 at the Farmers Market. The Purple Martin 
Festival is this Sat. July 26 from 6-9 pm. Sue Ridd is coordinating the event 
and would like to hear from anyone interested to contact her at s.ridd@xxxxxxxx
    Linda Warfield

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