[texbirds] Re: TX City Dike - Birding Vs. Security
- From: Laura Williams <lwbdr@xxxxxxx>
- To: "jlt290@xxxxxxxxx" <jlt290@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 07:48:36 -0600
I encountered this same situation about 5 years ago as another birder and I
stood outside the car with a scope clearly looking at the birds in the water.
We were quite surprised and irritated as well. It took us about ten minutes to
convince the officer that we meant no harm showing him all the gear we had and
bird reference material. He left us with a warning to not be coming back here
birding again unless we wanted to possibly have our vehicle searched. Never saw
on texbirds where anyone else had run into the same problem. We've never been
back to bird at TX City Dike.
Laura Williams
Sent from my iPad
On Feb 12, 2013, at 7:53 PM, John Tharp <jlt290@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thought I would pass this along to everyone since the TX City Dike is quite
> heavily birded. While out counting the grebes and such at TX City Dike
> today Dennis Shepler and I had a very pleasant, although rather unexpected
> conversation with a member of the Texas City Police Department.
> The message conveyed, quite politely i should add, is that birders more or
> less should not be pointing any scopes or cameras in the direction of the
> Ship Channel sides of the Dike or in anything remotely like the direction
> of the chemical facilities. Odds are if you do, you may have some
> unexpected visitors. Since this would more or less prevent legitimate
> birding of a large portion of that area it could prove mildly frustrating.
> Not sure if others have had issues here in the past.
>
> John Tharp
> Houston, TX
>
>
> Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at
> //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds
>
> Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission
> from the List Owner
>
>
Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at
//www.freelists.org/list/texbirds
Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission
from the List Owner
Other related posts:
