Seems the biggest issue is really privacy. The rich folks in the building don’t like the ongoing observation. That’s mostly ego; birders may be voyeurs, but they're into hawks, not people, and someone in the next building is just as likely to be a rear window peeping tom. Still it’s a scientific fact that observation affects things, and there are a lot of high-powered lenses pointing in that direction. And some observers are obsessive. A guy who regularly brings in an enormous celestial telescope with a big video monitor just got himself arrested for harassing Zahn and Cohen and their kids. The adults deserve to be reviled up to a point, but this seems to be crossing the line into counter-productive behavior.
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- alex 12-15-2004 6:55 pm