Yet another blog on baiting

OntPhoto wrote:https://www.flickr.com/photos/rudypohl/16366286992/

I'm not sure what he means by "ruined owls", is he referring to an inability to find an owl that doesn't have a pile of people baiting and photographing them? Or does he think that the bird has been damaged in some way? If it's the first, then I can understand that, if not then I don't.
But it does bring me back to an earlier idea about you. You go out of your way posting articles about baiting, scouring everywhere on the internet it appears. In fact maybe a better description of your behaviour would be an obsession. You admit to posting in multiple forums, year after year but claim no real opinion on the matter, claiming that you just enjoy finding out what other people think about it.  You are well versed in the techniques of baiting, perhaps a master at baiting, but refuse to admit that you do so. Your input in the discussions is limited, and when directly questioned, you deflect and echo back comments. You don't use your real name in the posts. You broach few other subjects in this forum, unlike another poster here who looks seriously at human impacts and behaviours and how small changes can carry the weight to save our natural world(i.e. meat eating among others). 
The only conclusion I can reach is that you're a troll. Now don't accuse me of name calling, it's just a label. 

Ooh, I've been baited by Scott again.  


I have already stated many times that I am neither for nor against.  If you join in to photograph an owl when it is baited it is the same thing to me.  I have already expressed what I do in such situations.  Go and re-read my posts on this matter. I have also stated that it is a personal decision each one must decide for themselves.  

Having said that, I followed a family of barred owls at a nest over two seasons and never fed them.  I had a northern hawk owl all to myself for most of a winter and never fed it.  I have seen numbers of eastern screech owls and saw-whet owls over the years and never fed them.  I followed a long-eared owl family for a season and never fed them. I followed a great-horned owl family (no one else was ever around) last year and in years past and never fed them. I never fed any of the great gray owls when they irrupted here 2 winters ago. Many others were doing it and I along with many others benefitted as a result. It's pretty much the same thing. I haven't fed any snowy owls this winter. Is this something to brag about?  No.  To each their own.  There is also a time and place for everything.  There may be situations that come up when I will need to rethink.  Don't hold me to anything. There is a time and place for everything.  But I have participated in taking photos of owls when others are doing it. To me this is pretty much the same thing. This thread is not about whether you bait or not.  You can have an intelligent discussion about the subject regardless.  Some are pro and others are anti and others do not care either way.  I take no sides.  To each their own has always been my view on this.  It is not for me to dictate to someone else what they should do.  But maybe one day it becomes illegal to do so (highly unlikely up here but anything's possible).  I would not miss it for a second.  I do not have a personal stake in the matter.  I do not make any money on owls in flight.

http://www.rudypohl.com/2015/02/owl-bai ... hy-ottawa/


http://www.rudypohl.com/2015/01/snowy-o ... nues-2015/


One from the local birding club. Scroll down to snowy owl workshops. Someone found a snowy owl workshop ad in Kjiji and that's what started this one. I read it with an open mind. Every winter it comes up.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/379992938552/

OntPhoto wrote:http://www.rudypohl.com/2015/02/owl-bai ... hy-ottawa/


http://www.rudypohl.com/2015/01/snowy-o ... nues-2015/


One from the local birding club.  Scroll down to snowy owl workshops.  Someone found a snowy owl workshop ad in Kjiji and that's what started this one.  I read it with an open mind.  Every winter it comes up.  

https://www.facebook.com/groups/379992938552/

The master baiter continues his trolling activities, that is your goal isn't it? As you said it comes up every year, nothing new. Good luck trolling, it seems to be your passion.

http://www.rudypohl.com/2015/02/owl-bai ... hy-ottawa/


http://www.rudypohl.com/2015/01/snowy-o ... nues-2015/


One from the local birding club. Scroll down to snowy owl workshops. Someone found a snowy owl workshop ad in Kjiji and that's what started this one. I read it with an open mind. Every winter it comes up.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/379992938552/

OntPhoto wrote:http://www.rudypohl.com/2015/02/owl-bai ... hy-ottawa/


http://www.rudypohl.com/2015/01/snowy-o ... nues-2015/


One from the local birding club.  Scroll down to snowy owl workshops.  Someone found a snowy owl workshop ad in Kjiji and that's what started this one.  I read it with an open mind.  Every winter it comes up.  

https://www.facebook.com/groups/379992938552/

Aren't you getting a little bit repetitious ?

http://www.rudypohl.com/2015/02/owl-bai ... hy-ottawa/


http://www.rudypohl.com/2015/01/snowy-o ... nues-2015/


One from the local birding club. Scroll down to snowy owl workshops. Someone found a snowy owl workshop ad in Kjiji and that's what started this one. I read it with an open mind. Every winter it comes up.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/379992938552/

OntPhoto wrote:http://www.rudypohl.com/2015/02/owl-bai ... hy-ottawa/


http://www.rudypohl.com/2015/01/snowy-o ... nues-2015/


One from the local birding club.  Scroll down to snowy owl workshops.  Someone found a snowy owl workshop ad in Kjiji and that's what started this one.  I read it with an open mind.  Every winter it comes up.  

https://www.facebook.com/groups/379992938552/

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