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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pete Mella" data-source="post: 1719604" data-attributes="member: 47236"><p>That's terrible to hear people were behaving in that way - I'm sure the writer of the article felt terrible about it, thinking that the readership would be genuine birders who would show a bit more respect, and I would personally blame the idiots throwing bricks rather than the birder who wrote the article. I write the odd walk for the magazine, and will keep this in mind when mentioning certain species (I only tend to mention any rarer species if it's information that's already well in the public domain).</p></blockquote><p></p>