On Our Latest Show: How birds keep cool in late summer heat; how to keep bees out of hummingbird feeders; and how ornithologists found a new bird species.
#797 Sept. 13, 2020
On our latest show: Bird Love; attracting hummingbirds in autumn; a slightly lesser goldfinch; and keeping your bird seed bug-free.
#794 Aug. 23, 2020
On Our Latest Show (#794 Aug. 23): Bird Names for Birds; bees bothering birds (hummingbirds, that is); Red-breasted Nuthatches on the move; and America’s smallest swift.
#673 Apr. 22, 2018
On our Earth Day show: Earth Day Network President Kathleen Rogers is our special guest. Plus, we get a hummingbird report from Cape Cod, and we meet the beautiful Northern Parula.
#640 Sept. 3, 2017
On our latest show: Seabirds Ashore; Learning to Identify Shorebirds; and the “Old Man of the Sea.”
#584 July 24, 2016
On today's show we talk about birds in Norway, on the Galapagos islands, and in your backyard.
#541 September 13, 2015
We're talkin' Whooping Cranes, sea ducks, hummingbirds, and "greedy beaks."
#328: July 24, 2011
We feature a bird that lets you know when it's tea time; we present a deceptively easy Mystery Bird contest; and Mike O'Connor talks about unexpected visitors to a listener's hummingbird feeder.
#136: November 11, 2007
We learn why New Englanders are being encouraged to put out hummingbird feeders...now! Also, we hear a bird that sounds like a motorboat, and Mike O'Connor tells us what he thinks about attracting birds with cranberries.
#129: September 23, 2007
The Mystery Bird is an underrated mimic; our Featured Feathered Friend is a scary one; and a listener offers some good reasons to keep your hummingbird feeders up after the end of summer.