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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dantheman" data-source="post: 1721124" data-attributes="member: 32998">Moving away from individuals, part of the problem is that given the number of people about, you can't act solely in the way you would want to, even if your fieldcraft were the best in the world. This is why lines have to be drawn at eg twitches; a single person could probably get closer, but then so would the next, and the next, and before you knew it, everyone would be too close, and the disturbance would have happened. I would guess that on any normal day a single person would be able to position themselves on the edge of the reedbed using their best fieldcraft, and feel that they had not done anything wrong. (As long as it was not expressly forbidden). The problem is that if one person does it, what's to stop the next one? And then you have people dotted out all over the place. Unfortunately you have to refrain from doing so in these public situations.(From the end of the blog article, this struck me as a bit of a sweeping statement;"The hide tides attracts alot people,yesterday being no exception of which most where unaware of this suffering around/below them as they ticked of the number of birds they’d seen,with the ever present thrust of seeing new species at the forefront of the minds" ....? )Anyway ... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />The fox (on topic?) which otherwise looked healthy made it ok, good.</blockquote>

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