...The Story

Back in the early 1990s, Ray hosted a weekend call-in talk show on Boston’s WBZ radio which featured a wide range of world, national, and local issues. But the topic that generated the greatest number of calls, lighting up the lines throughout the program and for a half- hour after the program ended, was...birdwatching!

This phenomenon was demonstrated again and again as Ray re-introduced this topic on subsequent programs. And... the call volume was followed by a remarkable flow of mail--from backyard birdwatchers and adventure birders, from birdwatching clubs, and from groups with special projects like trying to bring bluebirds back to Massachusetts.

That experience convinced Ray that a radio program about birds was a viable concept, and, after filing the idea away for about a decade, he finally set about putting such a program together. He convinced WATD-FM on Massachusetts' South Shore that this concept could work, and in April of 2005 the show had its debut. It has proven to be a great success, drawing phone calls from over 25 cities and towns in southeastern Massachusetts, and earning great support from listeners and advertisers alike.