Why, why, why, why, why would anyone think it is alright to hit golf balls into a colony of Least Terns?
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
Oh, they would think it is alright because it is alright: the next golf course, so far as GoogleEarth can be trusted, is around 1.7 miles away as the crow flies, and an estimated 10 minutes’ drive. This is clearly inacceptable, and it is therefore the local resident’s right to play golf whereever they want. You can’t put beast above people. It’s in the bill of rights and some fancy book the Manatee people in Florida know so well.
This is so confusing. How does the British Open fit into this?
Not at all, Least and Little Tern got split aaaages ago.