[Tweeters] The East 90 - a question?

[Jim Betz via Tweeters]

Hi,

   OK, I get it that feeding the voles near the road might/would 
endanger the Owls and Harriers.


   And that doing that - at the East 90 right near the road - is not the 
same thing as putting a seed

feeder in your backyard or using your phone to 'call' in an understory 
species that you've already

heard but you aren't actually seeing it.


   The East 90 is a special place and the Harriers and Owls have been 
there in the Winter for

several winters now (decades?).  That -has- to be due to the voles and 
other sources of

food.  Last year, especially later in the Winter, they were very near to 
the road at the East 90.

Maybe they will move closer as the season ages.  Yes, I have a long lens 
and am using it.

   I don't know how to feel about how -many- people are at the East 90 
this year.  It doesn't

really matter if it is a weekday or on the weekend.  The new parking lot 
is woefully

inadequate in terms of being able to reduce the number of cars parked 
along the road.


   The hunters are there this year (as always) - not just some times but 
essentially "every

day hunting is open".

   They mostly park in the designated areas and then walk out into the 
fields/all the way

to the river.  That's their way to "enjoy nature" and we have to respect 
their

rights/desires/needs as much as they should respect ours.  So far I've 
never seen

them shoot a Harrier, Owl, or even a Trumpeter.

                                        - Jim