Addendum to the Coyote

As a member of the yahoo groups Bird Hobbyist and 9-1-1 Parrot Alert, I am the joyful recipient of scads, oodles and virtual mountains of bird "stuff". Usually I browse and delete unless there is something of grand interest. Today's digest contained an heading, "Celebrity Birds". Piqued, I scrolled down to find that the celebrities were the hawks in New York City and a pair of barn owls with two, count them, TWO! nest cams. (BTW, www.palemale.com & www.theowlcam.com )

OK - I'm all about nature, but this has me vexed. Yes, yes, let's make sure that in this urban, people infested world children can access the bird cams and learn about species that they may not ever, EVER encounter in their "natural" lives... which brings up the opposing position, why are we accessing a virtual world to learn about animals, places, things in general that we should be able to walk out of doors and capture with our own eyes. I can get very frothy about this subject, but it usually turns people off and all sorts of argument ensues (unless of course you are a member of the elite few intellectuals who agrees with me..YeeHaw!).

Bottom line: If we could manage our resources and greed in a more moderate way, we might all be privy to the majesty that is our natural world without resorting to a "virtual" world.