One thing lost in this discussion is that a drone looks a lot like an eagle to a duck or goose. Using drones for spotting is likely self defeating as any drone passing over a bunch if birds will alarm them and put them up which if you are trying to pattern birds is not usually a good thing.
Now if you were using the drone to flush and haze birds off certain spots that certainly could be construed as harassing wildlife.
however taking pictures of your spread to get a birds eye view to see what it looks like is really isn't any different than using Google earth to look for potential travel lanes, feeding and bedding areas for big game hunting. Neither is hurting wildlife or someone else's hunt.
|