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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jane Turner" data-source="post: 1716672" data-attributes="member: 4350">Sometimes you see things that make you despair. As many of you know, I am in the lucky position of living on a beach. The birds come to me and over the last few days there have been fabulous numbers of waders roosting.   All year its a constant battle to politely inform beach users of the need to give the roosting birds a bit of a break at high tide, especially in cold weather.  Most people don't realise the damage that they are unwittingly doing, and keep away from the water's edge.  Some get abusive, but what you don't expect to see is BIRDERS DOING ITIt a high tide today and roosting spaces are at a premium.  So imagine my surprise to see two gaggles of birders/photographers out on the beach close to the incoming water's edge, with the remains of the roosting waders (a few hundred Oystercatchers) trapped between them in a pincer movement.  I didn't see what happened to the 10k Knot and Dunlin that were out there earlier.Bad enough I thought.... but then one guy breaks away from the bunch and walks closer to the edge and the birds and the rest join him.  At one point a passer by walked out to them and appeared to remonstrate with them (I think he may well be one of the guys I "educated".  I didn't see what happened because I saw my arse at this point and came downstairs to get a camera, to capture the field craft skills for posterity.  I think they deserve OUTING</blockquote>

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