Around here, you don't fool with the birds. We were shut down for 6 weeks to allow some Northern Harrier chicks to fledge and about 20% of our field is closed to flying from March-Sept. because of nesting Osprey. It's not a great situation but we're forced to live with it. And local Park Rangers are armed. And yes, we did have one member fined and receive a suspended sentence for harassing wildlife a number of years back.

The birds really don't seem to mind our presence and routinely fly back and forth right over our runway carrying nesting materials and fish back from a local lake. But we take them seriously. Not because of the enforced local regulations but just out of respect for their space.

We did have an American White Pelican attack one of our planes while it was floating on our lake waiting for 'rescue'. The moral of that story get your carb set right!