Mike O'Connor gives advice to vacationing backyard birders, and for our Featured Feathered Friend we go up to the lab...to see what's on the slab!
#247: December 27, 2009
We get a live Christmas Bird Count report Mass Audubon's John Galluzzo; we listen to an amazing recording of a gigantic robin roost; and we hear some hawk migration numbers that boggled our minds!
#246: December 20, 2009
We learn the nasty secret of Molothrus ater, while our Mystery Bird takes a long winter's nap.
#245: December 13, 2009
We learn some fascinating facts about a spectacular diver, and a demon driller, and Mike O'Connor talks about the simple device that will bring non-feeder birds to your backyard.
#244: December 6, 2009
Send us an email for a chance to win a Droll Yankees feeder in our Mystery Bird contest. Guests on today's show, from the River Valley Co-op in western Mass., include Mass Audubon's Wayne Petersen.
#243: November 29, 2009
We hear about parakeets in the Boston Public Garden; we learn some amazing facts about Ben Franklin's choice for our national symbol; and Mike O'Connor proffers some advice about presenting pumpkin seeds to your feeder birds.
#242: November 22, 2009
We welcome Chris Rimmer from the Vermont Center for Ecostudies as co-host, and we learn about the biggest tern in the world.
#241: November 15, 2009
We learn about the amazing behavior of a Whip-poor-will relative; we get a rare bird report from a listener in Toronto; and a lady named Phoebe provides the inspiration for our Mystery Bird contest.
#240: November 8, 2009
We learn about a bird who sounds like the Pillsbury Doughboy, and we find our Mystery Bird in a prairie dog hole.
#239: November 1, 2009
We learn about the bird that's the national symbol of Kazakhstan; Mike O'Connor offers advice on whether to put rice in your feeders; and we begin the show with the sound of...silence.
#238: October 25, 2009
We'll hear how Martha Stewart turned her backyard into a mecca for birds; Mike O'Connor talks about the world's heaviest bird feeder; and Ray Charles helps us introduce our Featured Feathered Friend.
#237: October 18, 2009
Lots of folks in the northeast are saying the birds have disappeared from their backyards—we try to find out why.
#236: October 11, 2009
We present a Mystery Bird that says its name, and we find our Featured Feathered Friend way down in South Texas.
#235: October 4, 2009
We learn about the bird that inspired the saying, "You look prettier than a pewee in a peckerwood tree." Our man John Galluzzo checks in live from Block Island, and we get a fearless fall finch forecast from Mike O'Connor.
#234: September 27, 2009
We offer praise for the "common" crow, and for another bird that gets the Rodney Dangerfield treatment.
#233: September 20, 2009
From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York, features Laura Erickson, editor of the Birdscope newsletter; a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker as our featured bird; and a live sighting of a juvenile Bald Eagle!
#232: September 13, 2009
We learn about a bird that's also a pack rat; we report an unusual close encounter; and we get jealous over a bird's ability to lose weight, fast.
#231: September 6, 2009
We learn about a fellow named Dick who lived in the White House long before Dick Nixon. Also today, we NEARLY stump our callers on the Mystery Bird contest, and we offer a salute of sorts to the people of Hinckley, Ohio.
#230: August 30, 2009
The tern that doesn’t fish, and bird sighting reports from Wrigley Field and Fenway Park.
#229: August 23, 2009
Scott Weidensaul explains why shade-grown coffee is essential for the survival of birds. Also, we hear a bird that sounds like a frog, and Mike O'Connor solves an Osprey mystery for a listener.