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— Colleen, East Walpole, Massachusetts
This week's show (#1,046 July 13) features a screech owl audio postcard from New Jersey; bird sightings from Costa Rica; and Mike O'Connor’s thoughts about feeding peanuts to your backyard birds. Hear it here.
A Sea-eagle nest cam in Australia
The EagleCAM is a live, remote feed that operates out of the Discovery Centre in the Newington Armory at Sydney Olympic Park. It was started and funded by a small group of BirdLife Australia volunteers who still maintain it. Being in Australia, the time zone is GMT +10, so it might be night when you tune in. (7/9)
Mike and Corey
One of these buff, handsome guys is Talkin' Birds listener Corey Wesnitzer of Somerset, New Jersey. The other is our man Mike O'Connor. We can't tell them apart, but they're both at the Bird Watcher's General Store in Orleans, Cape Cod. If you have any idea who is who, kindly let us know. Oh, and we love the hat. (7/11)
How watching birds for 10 minutes a week can help climate scientists this summer
UCLA’s annual Project Phoenix aims to document how birds change their behavior when there’s more wildfire smoke. (7/1)
Make Your Own Swag contest winner #1
Here's the first winner of our Make Your Own Swag contest! Pictured is Tim Cornish, who’s plirding (picking up litter while birding) at Armintrout-Milbocker Nature Preserve in Allegan, Michigan. Thanks, Tim! (6/10)
Make Your Own Swag contest winner #3
Here's winner #3 of our Make Your Own Swag contest, Annabelle Bradley from Yonkers, New York. Keen-eyed observers may be able to spot the Mourning Dove nesting atop the column right behind Annabelle. (6/12)
Make Your Own Swag contest Grand Prize winner
Congratulations to Maddie Carr of East Syracuse, New York! Maddie has won a Vortex Diamondback HD 16-48x65 spotting scope.
Random drawing determined the winner, which was fortunate because we received so many great photos that we couldn't have chosen any other way. Thanks, everybody! We will do this again.
Plastic-free July calendar
Thirty-one days of NOT choosing single-use plastics....What could be better for our planet than that? This inspiring calendar gives us all a new way to take action every single day of July. Look around the website for fact sheets, events, and publications. (7/9)
Make Your Own Swag contest winner #5
This week’s winner is Josh Denton from Indian Trail, North Carolina. He wins a Brome Squirrel Buster Plus special bird feeder (retail price: $124.45). Good going, Josh! (6/30)
Make Your Own Swag contest winner #4
Here’s Meggan Fox from Des Moines, Iowa with her 1st grade class at Holy Trinity School. They love Talkin' Birds, and we love them! Meggan has been doing birding -- and plirding -- activities with these students, giving them a great start as stewards of the earth. (6/24)
Make Your Own Swag contest winner #2
Congrats to our second Make Your Own Swag contest winner! Matt Scott from Albany, Minnesota — with his Vortex binoculars, Rose-breasted Grosbeak tattoo … and Talkin’ Birds patch. (6/12)
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Bird vocalizations provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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