Exploration and insights into birds, re-wilding your yard, neighborhood, and spirit.
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The founder of The Urban Butterfly Initiative holds a “mothing” event at a local park, to the delight of local entomologists and children.
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2 Aug 2024
A Drop of Terrestrial Fire
This week’s essay focuses on one of nature’s most intriguing and amazing birds … the hummingbird. People have long been fascinated by hummingbirds. The Mayans believed hummingbirds were the sun in disguise. Poets and artists have used hummingbirds as inspiration for hundreds of years. In this week’s essay, Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to a Hummingbird” is featured. Enjoy!
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26 Jul 2024
Planting Ourselves Again in the Universe
Bill contemplates the importance of gardening, friendship, and the ways in which he can support trees and nature in challenging times.
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19 Jul 2024
Gardening for Birds
Listen to Bill’s description of the bird oasis that he has created in his urban backyard. In less than a third of an acre, Bill has created pockets of prairie, native shrubs and trees, fruit trees, and berry bushes. A pond the size of a large bathtub is also a big hit with the birds. Be inspired to create a bird sanctuary of your own!
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12 Jul 2024
Hope in a Hawk Motoh
A garden brings Bill hope on a daily basis. From the young rabbit who has decided Bill is his admirer to a pair of hornworms who need a new home, hear all about what Bill is finding in his backyard veggies. And take a quick trip to a sand prairie where Bill finds a hummingbird moth. Charismatic insect megafauna at its best!
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5 Jul 2024
A Panther in My Garden
Without many birds in town, Bill is focusing on insects this summer! In four months, he has seen 115 species of insects in his suburban backyard. In this week’s podcast, learn more about the crazy insect names … and behaviors … that Bill is seeing right out his back door.
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5 Jul 2024
American Goldfinch: A Continuous Harmony
Singing trees adorned with a ring of gold stand out in the spring woods. American Goldfinch choirs gather amidst bright green, unfurling leaves and fill the air with a continuous harmony. The males wear their brilliant yellow and black spring attire. Females are also in attendance, joining the musical festival to assess the males’ color, singing, and agility on the wing. The music begins with a few quiet voices, then quickly swells into a resounding chorus. The most elaborate, jaunty songs of the year pour forth from the finches, electrifying the landscape.
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5 Jul 2024
A Great Wave of Birds
A “fallout” of birds and birders enchants the birding community for a few fleeting days in May. This natural phenomenon happens when specific weather patterns collide with birds migrating north, forcing them to land in great numbers.
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5 Jul 2024
Visions of Owls Dance in My Head
In this guest essay, author Chrissy McClarren finds solace in a rare long-eared owl as she loses a beloved aunt to cancer.
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5 Jul 2024
A Masterclass in Living to One's Fullest, Weirdest Potential
It is not often that you read a book that changes the way you view life. The Light Eaters by author Zoe Schlanger is such a book. The latest research on plants will have you questioning all sorts of things we had thought were “settled science.” Could plants have consciousness? Could they cooperate? Do they see? Can they think? And what does this mean for the science of being human?
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5 Jul 2024
Noah and the Owls Leave Home
Our first season of screech owls nesting in our backyard ended with the nestlings leaving the nest box the same day our oldest son left home for Japan. Enjoy this beautiful meditation on parenting!
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5 Jul 2024
The Beautiful Abundance of Spring Migration
Our feathered friends have arrived! We had our first big wave of spring migrants show up on May 6. Migration is now in full swing and will reach its peak in mid-May. The woods that have been relatively quiet for months are now alive with song. The woods are also alive with birdwatchers!
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4 Jul 2024
A Bird in the Hand
On Bill and Mercy’s trip to Ontario, they birdwatched and “birder watched” at the Long Point Bird Observatory, one of the best birding destinations in the world. Long Point is a small bird sanctuary with an incredible diversity of birds. They also have a bird banding station where the public can see amazing migratory birds up close.
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4 Jul 2024
Come for the Birds, Stay for the People
Our trip to Canada began with a tense border crossing … Thus began Bill and Mercy’s epic birding trip to the north shore of Lake Erie. Follow along as they visit one of the most famous birding destinations in the world and encounter as many remarkable people as birds.
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4 Jul 2024
Take Your Cues from the Muse
Amy Tan is best known for her novels, especially The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, and The Bonesetter’s Daughter. Her latest book is The Backyard Bird Chronicles, which details her love affair with birds. In this podcast, Bill describes her journey in parallel with that of author Kyo Maclear.
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21 Jun 2024
Rescuing an Owl: Part 2
In this episode, Bill and his birding friends complete their mission to rescue a baby owl that was blown out of its nest during a storm.
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18 Jun 2024
Fluddles: Restoring Wetlands for Birds
This recording describes a new wetland restoration project in central Illinois. Farmers, birdwatchers, and biologists are working together to restore wetlands in farm fields in an effort to restore wildlife habitat and bring the landscape back into balance.
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