[wisb] Wisconsin Point addendum/warning.

From: Chris West <little_blue_birdie@xxxxxxx>
To: "[Wisb]" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:08:33 -0500
Hey everyone, 
Let the following narrative serve as a warning and reminder to everyone who 
visits Wisconsin Point: 

After a quick lunch, I drove down to the end of the point to look for Harris' 
Sparrow. 
There was a couple parked down on the bay side looking out at the bay. 
Otherwise, there was nobody else around.  I parked near the 3-way split in the 
road where the thick brush where the sparrows usually hang out.  I then walked 
down the middle fork and just around the corner, barely out of sight of my car. 
 I wasn't gone for more than a few minutes at most. 

When I returned, I FOUND MY DRIVERS SIDE MIRROR SMASHED AND THE DRIVERS SIDE 
WINDOW SHATTERED AS IF SOMEONE HAD SWUNG A BASEBALL BAT THROUGH IT. 
I spent the next 3 hours cleaning up the glass, filing a police report and 
patching the window with plastic and duct tape. Now I have to replace the 
mirror and window, all at my expense. I can barely afford repairs to my car as 
it is without someone else incurring more.... 
Whoever the sorry excuse for a human who did it is, I sincerely hope when 
they're caught, they spend the next ten years sitting in a jail cell.

Do note that this type of vandalism has been occurring on WI Point for YEARS 
and the City of Superior has DONE NOTHING ABOUT IT. I severely doubt they will 
do anything about it in the future either. The cop I talked to acted like this 
stuff happens every day and it was OUR fault for parking our car on the point.  
Therefore, I highly recommend to everyone who visits, that as long as this 
stuff is still going on, DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CAR. For ANY reason. That is, unless 
you really like repairing broken windows. 

End rant. 
To any would be vandals who might be reading this: I will be installing a video 
camera in my car so that you'll be on film next time you decide that I don't 
need windows in my car..... 


On a side note, I talked to Peder Svingen who said that there have been no 
Jaegers and no Sabine's Gulls seen in Duluth since Sunday afternoon. Seems as 
if the front that came through moved everything out and nothing came in behind 
to fill their place. That was demonstrated by the lack of species numbers at 
the point. 




Happy Birding! --Chris W, Richland County Interpretive Naturalist Mississippi 
Explorer Cruises
http://mississippiexplorer.com/chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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"The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first 
material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the 
composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no 
more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be 
again."

(From William Beebe's "The Bird: Its Form and Function," 1906)                  
                  
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