Breckland Birder

Breckland Birder
Red Deer in Breckland, Norfolk Photo by Paul Newport

Friday 24 July 2020

List of Shame (Letter in 'Birdwatch Magazine' August 2020

An excellent and very timely letter to August 2020 edition of Birdwatch magazine highlighted the disrespect a 'well known Twitcher' and the lengths this idiot went to during 'Covid Lock-Down' to break the simple rules the government laid down to keep us all safe.  I have responded to that letter in the hope it gets published in order to shame this twitcher type.
My letter reads as follows: 

I am responding to Adrian Halliday's excellent and very timely letter regarding certain elements of the twitching fraternity who feel that 'Covid Lock Down' rules do not apply to them.

The vast majority of birders adapted their birding during lock-down to Garden birding and watching the sky from their gardens for migrants, and this produced interesting results.

However, those twitchers who disregard the simple rules of lock-down in pursuit of a tick, clearly lack the respect for others in the community and are putting people and potentially the emergency services and NHS at risk.

As a response to the disregard towards others and lack of respect for important rules laid down during lock-down, those twitchers who breached those requirements should be banned from public events in future and not given any form of media publicity.

It would be interesting to hear from those twitchers who could not comply with lock-down rules for their side of the story?

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