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It's not the birders watching it, but the repeated flushing to get flight views. If they'd just kept still and watched from a distance (like the Birder's Code of Conduct states http://www.birdguides.com/webzine/article.asp?a=494 ), the hawk might never have seen the owl.
Seems to me that birdwatchers should know that they should be neither seen nor heard. Flushing out a burrowing owl just seems wrong.
I know I'll be more cautions when out and about now. I've had a hawk get a bird in my yard before and I felt just so guilty, like i was part of a conspiracy to lure the birds!!!
I agree with Resin. When I read the article, and they said people were flushing it out just to see...I just thought, that's so wrong. In any animal species people should always watch at a distance, so not to disturb it. I haven't read bird guides nor am I an avid birder, but I think a lot of that would be common sense.
