Kathy, etal:
I've often said (jokingly maybe, maybe not!) that we birders should buy a
hunting license, strap a plastic six shooter on our hip and definitely wear
camo clothing, with the proper color vest (red or yellow, I can never
remember)...then how could they keep us out of those "closed for hunting"
areas...after all, we're hunting too, (birds, that is)...
we just don't shoot them.

I too, remember when wild game supplemented our supper table at least once
a week, but today I don't really believe that's the reason for hunting...
it's the "sport of it" and I use the term very loosely.

Frances C.
St. Joseph, MO Buchanan Co.
Bean Lake Cabin, Platte Co.

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Kathy Lewis wrote:
>While talking to a young man recently about birding, he was quite interested
>and of course I encouraged him to join any of the available Audubon groups and
>log on to MOBIRDS etc.  He made a comment about it being a hobby.  We talked
>about that for a time and it is my feeling that it is a sport as well as a
>hobby.  It can be an armchair activity but it is also a very strenuous
>activity.
>Which brings me to another possibility if we wore hard hats, shooters gloves
>or all had gun racks in our back windows, would we be allowed into the areas
>now closed to us for so much of the year.  Our taxes also go to support these
>areas and most birders are very careful to leave no trash and definitly no
>shotgunor rifle shell casings.
>
>I am not anti hunting as wild game was an important addition to our table
>when I was young.
>
>Kathy Lewis
>Clay Co. Mo.
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