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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jos Stratford" data-source="post: 1488198" data-attributes="member: 12449">Excellent trip report, but just a comment on your experience at the Bald Ibis colony..."Once we had taken several photographs we headed for their breeding cliffs where we met an extremely officious individual who claimed he was the warden and asked us to leave. Considering that at Birdfair we raise an awful lot of money to pay his wage I have never met such an obnoxious individual"Though you may well have kept a respectable distance, they do have problems with persons disturbing the birds at the breeding colony and visiting birders are generally asked not to publicise or visit the actual nesting cliffs - the birds are easily seen away from the nest and considering this is a species not far from global extinction, it is not a big request. Maybe there is a question over his politeness, but it's tad off linking this to the source of funding for the Bald Ibis project. I wouldn't like to think there is a suggestion he owes British birders something because the project recieved funding via the Bird Fair.</blockquote>