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Welcome to the Bird Joy Podcast!
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In this episode, Dexter Patterson and Jason Hall welcome our fellow bird nerds into a space to celebrate Bird Joy. We cover displaying Red-winged Blackbirds, taunting Northern Mockingbirds, and even a lost Yellow-billed Loon in Las Vegas. This episode is all about vibing with nature and the restlessness that comes with Spring fever. Join us as we create space for new birders through the equitable, diverse, safe, meaningful, ethical, inclusive, and joyful pursuit of our fluffy homies.
Be sure to follow our podcast on Instagram at @thebirdjoypd and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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Introduction to the Joy of Birding
00:00:00
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I can't believe it. I got you on a podcast, my dude. I know. It's wild, man. It's wild. And it feels so good to be on a podcast that is kind of, you know, focused on the very specific bird joy, a very special kind of way to approach the outdoors because you and I both know we've probably been on a number of podcasts and like everyone has a different vibe, but none of them are. I think the vibe that you and I would create with one another. So it's it's so beautiful to be here, brother. Thank you so much for thinking of me with this with this venture, man.
00:00:29
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I
Meet the Hosts: Jason Hall and Dexter Patterson
00:00:30
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love it. And for all the people out there that may not know you, just let them know who Jason Hall is, what you got going on in the bird world. Who are you, my dude? Yeah, who am I? Well, number one, I'm probably the freshest bird beard you'll see out on the trail. Just make sure everybody knows that. I like to keep it nice and coiffed, moisturized. It helps me find the birds, shows them that I am a human of respect.
00:00:57
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Yeah. Secondly, I'm the founder of In Color Birding Club here in Philadelphia, a nonprofit devoted to getting black and brown folks and our allies out into nature, particularly through the on ramp of birds. So, you know, we're looking forward to beautiful 2024, you know, getting people out. That nonprofit is not my day job, my day job. I work in pharmaceuticals, specifically vaccines, been doing that for almost 20 years. So
00:01:23
Speaker
This is not a podcast about vaccines though so we're gonna keep it to the birds. I appreciate that and for those of you that don't know who I am Dexter Patterson I am co-founder of the BIPOC Birding Club of Wisconsin so that was another thing where Jason and I really connected with both of us leading birding clubs which is kind of unique in the space and it's a blessing I know I think you feel the same way it's just like
00:01:48
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kind of be in that conduit to our people, to people who want to kind of see a more just, more equitable, more inclusive birding community all come together, you know, around this just joy, right? And we'll continue
Spring Migration Excitement
00:02:02
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to center around that word joy and specifically bird joy for us because this is like, they make us so happy.
00:02:09
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I'm looking outside. There's a little bit of sunshine and like I'm hearing red wing blackbirds. I started hearing a couple songs sparrows kill deer. I started getting pretty excited and obviously the sandhill cranes flying over. We got the little Robins hopping around the yard, bro. I'm kind of like, all right.
00:02:34
Speaker
So spring is definitely coming. And it's so excited that we can start to talk about this, start to talk about bird joy with the people right around the time. Spring migration is about to pop off. It feels right, don't it? It does. It does. And I feel like the birds do. I'm getting restless. I'm like, ah, it's time to get outside. I got to go. I got to go do something. We had a 65 degree day.
00:03:01
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this week. And I was dying, man. I was dying sitting in front of my laptop. I was like, this is the worst. Like I need to be migrating right now to some green space. But I got out this morning. I signed up for a signed up for a breeding bird survey. So the Pennsylvania bird atlas.
The Joy and Community of Birding
00:03:17
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So I get like a little square mile around my house and I get to log birds, you know, from April to August or April to September or something like that.
00:03:26
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But it was just nice to be out, man. I had my first Kill Deers of the year this morning at a spot I didn't expect to see. And I was like, and it was two of them. I was like, all right, all right, all right, y'all ready to go? You ready to go? I see you making all that damn noise like you usually do. But it was absolutely beautiful, man, to get outside. And I hope, you know, I hope for you when I feel here after looking out the window and I'd be honest, I'm a little jealous that you're here and saying hill cranes in the morning.
00:03:51
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what it must be to live in a place like that. And Narrowsmen of Riches is what I like to call it. Yeah, if we can give people some of this, some of what we feel when you and I go outside and we get to experience the bird homies, like if we can get that to come through in this podcast, I think that's really what we're going for. You know what I love? You mentioned
00:04:10
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what he said, like a bird atlas thing that you're doing. So like talk about that citizen science stuff, because I think that's really cool. I get a lot of beginning birders will ask me, how do I start? Like, dude, what should I do? What should I do? And I'm like always like, you know what, start in your backyard. It's like, for me, it's so intriguing.
00:04:30
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literally just pay attention to what is around at all times. And it's so weird when you actually pay attention, whether it's your front yard or your porch or your backyard. So wherever you're able, maybe it's just going outside of your building, wherever it is. When you start to pay attention to the birds already around you, it kind of it really flips the script because you're like, wait a minute. It's not just one or two birds around me. There's like 15 different species around me right now. Right.
Expanding Horizons: Birding Themes and Tips
00:05:00
Speaker
Right. And you never notice them. No. And that's what's so cool. So when they're beginning, I know this pod is going to appeal to a lot of newbie birders or baby birders, as I like to call them. And I love you. We are your people. Yes. You're a brand new birder. This is where you belong.
00:05:16
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right? Like you should be here and ask yourself like literally text, where do I start? I say, dude, just start in your front yard, your backyard, your patio, wherever you can access the outdoors and just listen and pay attention, start there and then like start to like write down which bird you see and what did they can like whip out the Merlin app or something, right?
00:05:36
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Mm hmm. Yeah, yeah. You know, like it's like, you know, as part of the point of this podcast, right? It's like in every episode, we're going to be approaching it from that perspective, right? So whether we're talking about international travel or the technology that we use to find and log the birds gear,
00:05:53
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safety in the outdoors, diversity in the outdoors. All of them are gonna come from that perspective of someone just getting started, right? And folks will find that a lot of the themes here are how to get to that bird joy as quickly as you possibly can. Cause that is really what we're here for. And yeah, man, the bird Atlas, it's my first time doing it. It's the third one in Pennsylvania's history. Pennsylvania has like, it's like over 4,000 little blocks and you sign up for one.
00:06:18
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And you got to do like 20 hours of birding and log a certain number of species. And when you put them in e-birds, you got to put all the fancy little breeding codes and stuff. And we're not going to get into all that today. The beautiful part about it is birds that I see all the time near my house or in my neighborhood.
00:06:34
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I get to look at them from a slightly different perspective. I get to spend a little bit more time with them like, okay, this morning I had I had a Northern Cardinal, right? And they're usually quiet all winter. And this morning I have one singing. I know what he's doing. That's beautiful, right? I know what he's doing. He's looking for the ladies, you know, he's looking for the ladies and I'm like, okay,
00:06:52
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So in my head, I'm like, all right, this little park, five minute drive from my house, I'm going to come back over here and I'm going to come back to this exact spot and I'm going to sit for a little bit and I'm going to see, did he find somebody? Is there somewhere?
Seasonal Changes and Birding
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Do I see him and Mrs. Cardinal gathering food, right? Maybe I can find their nest, you know, safely.
00:07:10
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and then be able to actually spend some time with them without worrying about whether I was finding a super rare bird or anything. Just really just saying like, hey, can I just observe two parental birds feeding their babies? Which is beautiful. And this was amazing, right?
00:07:26
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What's really cool, and you know, I mentioned like the Red Wind Blackbirds and it's like, I noticed them first. They're like some of the like early migrating birds. They are. At the end of winter, you start seeing them showing up and obviously they're showing up similar to the Cardinal singing. They're showing up and they're going to start calling out and trying to establish territory early.
00:07:47
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So they're already up here, sometimes the end of February, first week of March, and you start hearing them. And then it's like, it's kind of like this domino effect because then you're not only seeing red weaned blackbirds and hearing them. And then next thing you know, you hear, we were talking a week or so ago about the male house finch and how they start singing. And then like how you might just find yourself just like literally nerding out over the fact that, wait,
00:08:13
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I just heard a male houchman singing, but I also saw Red Wing Blackbird and I saw Robin hopping around in the yard. Now what's happening? Like your whole brain starts to just go crazy because you realize we're kind of literally in the beginning of the spring migration.
00:08:31
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I know, I know it's like, and that's like the beautiful part. People can get started in the spring, mid to early spring, or even in the winter. And you get, you get familiar with your landscape during a certain season. Right. And the reason the red wing blackbirds pop out so much is because they're not making noise or they're not here.
00:08:49
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in the dead of winter usually so at the end of my neighborhood there's a little cattail kind of retention pond thing and i know when it's about to pop off because i started going to work and i hear them out there calling you know they just have to give them a little call yeah i'm like okay bet it's about time and as soon as i get used to them being out there next thing you know boom baltimore aureus
00:09:12
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Right? I'm starting to hear those, right? I'm starting to hear warblers, right? I got brown thrashers making a ruckus in the bushes, right? They give this like kissing noise, you know, when you, when you're on the, all right, it's time to go. So like, that's what I want people to be excited for. It's like every day you wake up during the year.
00:09:28
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If you're aware of birds, it's like turn on the page and like, okay, story. And you can do that on a local scale in your backyard. You can do that globally. You got travel somewhere for work. Oh, boom. You got another page. Even if you got to go to like Nebraska in the middle of winter, there's stuff there.
00:09:45
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Right. And probably a whole bunch of cranes. Probably. Right. Probably. Right. So like, man, it's just it's just it's such an exciting time of the year, man. And I wish we could just do this every day, you know, just have a conversation every day about birds would be fantastic.
00:10:00
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Yeah. And we
Birding Challenges and Humor
00:10:01
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probably won't be able to pull off the conversation every day, but we could probably pull it off weekly, which is our goal is to try to drop an episode every week with the people throughout the spring, throughout the summer, and just kind of sharing stories like we just shared. It's funny because the last time we talked, it's funny how we talk and we always end up talking about goals somehow. Yeah. And I think it's your fault.
00:10:26
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I think it's your fault, but it's so funny because we have these conversations and we start talking about goals, and I'm like, yep, this is Jason's fault that I'm out at my local watering hole taking pictures of ring-billed goals and herring goals right now. Yeah, that's my fault. I have a whole bunch of herring goals that just showed up, and I'm like, this is Jason's fault. I'm taking pictures of goals, and it's your fault. I just thought I would share that with you. I mean, if you got a bunch of herring goals, you got to be looking out for that very good goal.
00:10:54
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See? That homie that's from Japan. Somebody just had one in, I think it was New York or New Jersey yesterday. And they look like herring gulls. They're a little bit skinnier. They got some more striping on their head. A couple other pretty interesting details, but I'm a little jealous. You just got a whole bunch of herring gulls hanging around.
00:11:12
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Yeah, they just started showing up over the last couple of weeks. Like I said, that domino effect is so funny. And then I saw my first couple of song sparrows. Ooh, I was walking the dog and I heard the song sparrows going. I got a little excited that morning walking.
00:11:30
Speaker
It lasted a little bit longer. I'll just say that. Wait a minute. Now I'm hearing songs, sparrows. I went from there like, oh, this is the warning signs of this early spring is going to disappear. And I'm not going to lie. We still get some cold days. Sure. I'm really confident that spring is like here.
00:11:49
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See, I always feel that way too, but see Pennsylvania is a little indecisive when it comes to change in seasons. So what we're in right now in Pennsylvania is called fake spring. And it's going to be like that for probably another week or two. And then we'll get one more cold snap. It might even snow because you know, Pennsylvania, right? And then after that, it's spring before everything really gets blooming and green. It's just muddy season.
00:12:18
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It's just rain falling things are trying to grow the ground stone out right so you gotta get your boots on but it's exciting either way cuz you realize the birds you know the birds don't migrate all the time based off of.
00:12:30
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the season, they migrate based off the amount of light as the Earth's axial tilt turns, they're like, okay, I'm getting some more daylight, so it's time to go. And it's interesting to keep an eye on it in the spring, because some birds show up too early and they eat bugs. And it's not warm enough for the bugs yet, but there's plenty of sunlight, right? So those birds got to figure it out. Same thing, some birds show up to breed.
00:12:50
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They get here too late to get the bugs or the caterpillars or whatever it is. And now they're going to have a tough time nesting. Right. So like it's a really critical time of year. And although I can be mad and curse the skies for extra snow, you know, some of these birds are dealing with a lot more, a lot more hardship, you know, when it comes to the change of season. So I
Mental Benefits of Birding
00:13:09
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look forward to seeing them be successful.
00:13:10
Speaker
I'm in Wisconsin and now you have me regretting my statement of spring is here knowing that we're going to at least two to three weeks of early spring. Don't mind me, I'm a little excited. I start hearing spring birds and they're hardy.
00:13:29
Speaker
I know a lot of people get worried, but like the red winged black bird and, you know, the robin and the kill deer and the song Sparrow and these cranes and these birds we're talking about are going to be just fine. Yeah, it's funny. Wisconsin weather gods are like, oh, really, Dex?
00:13:45
Speaker
Oh, really? Yeah. I was like, let me just go ahead and put this out there in the universe. My bad. My bad. My bad. I don't know what you're going to say, man. A few states over from you last week, they got like 12 feet of snow. You better be careful. Yeah. We had a day. We had a day, literally, it was about a week ago. We had a high of 70. And then that same night was a low of 15 degrees. Oh.
00:14:10
Speaker
55 degree temperature drop, literally in the same day. It was pretty wild. I always wonder too, maybe some of the homies out there can let us know on socials or whatever. What is it like in South Texas, South Florida, right? When you go from winter to- It's got a top great island. Yeah. Do you guys actually have to put in work to get through winter down there?
00:14:33
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Or is it just us up here putting in that effort, right? It's funny. People think I'm crazy. They'll see me doing a video, see you doing a video. They're just seeing your breath. It's too cold to be outside. What is you doing outside?
00:14:50
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A lot of my family is in Tennessee. So my dad and all my kinfolk on my dad's side, they're all in Tennessee and it's so funny. They all think it's crazy how cold it gets up here. And like people have seen me just in a beanie hat and I'm burdened and it's good. It look cold.
00:15:08
Speaker
I'm like, well, you have no idea what cold is. This right now, late spring, early spring. I mean, early spring, late winter weather is not cold. I'm sorry. Like it's like, yes, it's just not cold. No, it's fine. No, no, it's fine, man. I like to get the beard out there.
00:15:25
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you know stretching the beard out as the weather starts to thaw a little bit and like just feeling like like your body you know I was thinking about this this morning when I was walking around like the first hour of my birding hike this morning it was really sunny right and it rained all day yesterday like poured rain so all the rivers are crested the streams are flooded right it's muddy but the sun
00:15:46
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You know, we did the time change, you know, the sun just hitting your face, warming it up enough so that you're not you just literally not cold. Yeah. I mean, it's 40 degrees outside and it's chilly, but you just and you think to yourself like, man, we really are connected to this landscape because this feeling I have right now, the sun hit in my face is the same feeling every human being has felt in the context of being outdoors this time of year, maybe plus or minus a week or two. Right. Mm hmm. The way it gets my
00:16:14
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My heart jumping, and my blood flowing, and I just get happy, and I'm just so grateful to be outdoors. I wonder if birds feel that. You know, because they're outside all the time. Do you think birds have really good days? We're like, yeah, the weather's nice today. Oh, I love it. I love it. I wonder, man. I wonder if that, I saw a couple of mockingbirds. I had a mockingbird today. You did a mockingbird? Yes.
00:16:42
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I can't stop. I think about that every time. See, this is the stuff that happens to me, right? I think about it. Random places and I hear a word like Mockingbird and I start busting up laughing. Nobody knows why I'm laughing. Nobody knows. I'm like in the back of my head.
00:17:10
Speaker
Shit, that's the bird nerd. All the bird nerds out there, I know they feel that because it's like it'd be these random moments where you just care about the birds or anything related to birds more than anybody else around and nobody understands why. That just means you're a bird nerd. You're not alone. You're my people. That's right. That's right. You don't sit and hang out with a mockingbird. I had one this morning and Homie was given
00:17:37
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Oh man, I counted Eastern Bluebird, Eastern Wood Peewee, Eastern Phoebe. He was going through the whole round of songs and then he hit me with, he hit me with a Whippoorwill. Wow.
00:17:51
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And then he hit me with a black build magpie, which I only hear when I'm out past the Rockies. Wow. And I was like, homie, where are you from? Where did you learn that you're not supposed to be out here and like just sitting there and wondering, like, maybe he's just feeling himself because it's a nice morning. He was like, I'm going to hit him with the whole repertoire this morning. I'm going to hit him with the whole the whole album this morning. You know, and I just.
00:18:13
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He said he did the whole album. He did the whole album, all 12 tracks. He was like, come get it. No EP. No. And I was like, this is so beautiful, right? And a very common bird, a mockingbird, but just sitting there and saying to yourself, can I pick out every song with this bird is giving. He's violating everybody Merlin app right now. That's right. That's right. That's right. I wasn't even mad at him, right? I was like, you do you, homie. You do you.
00:18:43
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I love it. I love it. Yeah. Like I wish I do wish like at the snap of a finger, I could just, if I'm experiencing something great out in nature, just snap my fingers and just teleport all my friends and family. There's been like, do you see this? Do you see this? You know, in those moments where you find yourself just literally nerding out about this bird or its sound or his behavior or where you saw it, or I don't know. It's like all these moments, once the people start to pay attention, they're going to start experiencing these
00:19:13
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moments of serendipity where they're out in the woods, they're somewhere at their local park, they're somewhere and all of a sudden they feel better or they smile or they notice something that they didn't notice before or they recognize this bird call because they heard it the last time they were out. They start having these type of moments and they start to feel like this is for me.
00:19:35
Speaker
Yeah, this is the, I'm in my zone. I'm very comfortable. I'm living in the moment. I think that that's an important part. There's so much negativity kind of thrown at people all the time or stress throughout the week, whether you're working in your pharmaceutical world or.
00:19:51
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trying to prepare a lecture for 50 students or whatever it might be. There's sometimes there's these moments in the world where like stress can mount, but then you go out like you went out this morning and the sun's hitting your face and you're hearing these new birds and you're starting to think about things. It changes your mind frame from like all that stress and those worries. That's right.
00:20:13
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I'm here right now with the homies. I'm enjoying this, you know, and you kind of leave, you leave the spot, that spot, like everybody's
Birding Essentials and Habits
00:20:22
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in a spot with us right now, but we all go to our spots and we find these birds and like we listen to these birds, we observe these birds and we leave better people, better human beings. I hope that's another thing that people get when they listen is just
00:20:38
Speaker
Yes. We're human beings. Like anybody else, we have bad days and it's, it's crazy because those bad days are when I remember that I love birds and I go and spend some time with them and that bad day is like not as bad. That's right. You better, you better preach professor decks better.
00:20:55
Speaker
That's, that's, it's just, and it's not even super complicated. I wish I could give people like some really detailed scientific explanation for it, but I can't, I can just tell you that like on some of my worst days, just spending time like the, it's to me, it's the, it's the intentionality of it. You intentionally have to go out and go birding, right? It usually doesn't sneak up on you unless you're driving and you see something wild on the side of the road, which happens.
00:21:21
Speaker
It's more than people probably that drive behind me care. I definitely get honked at. So I did decide to put on a little bumper sticker that says, I break for birds. Oh, solid. I got it. I stop for birds. Yeah, I got to get one of those.
00:21:39
Speaker
So they don't think I'm completely crazy if they're close enough. And then they eventually will see, because I don't know about you. I have a pair of car binoculars, by the way. Oh, I do. Yeah. OK. I got car binoculars. I got a house. OK. I got office binoculars at work. See? Yeah. I'm not the only one. You're not the only one. You can't be sleeping. You can't get got when something crazy pops up and you got no binoculars. So you got to keep them things on you all the time.
00:22:08
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Man. All the time, you know. So I have a at my job, there's a little like a three quarter mile walking trail down at the corner of the site and there's a little retention in the pre times, the pre COVID times. When I was having a rough day, I would just take my lunch break and do like a couple laps around there.
00:22:31
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I started bringing my binoculars, man. I had like 56 species one day in the spring in the middle of the day. And I'm like, man, I'm looking around like all these other people, all these other pharmaceutical scientists are like, where'd you go? And I was like, only for a walk. I saw all these birds. They're like, you didn't see all these birds on this site. I'm like, bet. What's so cool. I loved it. You said that all of a sudden you start to see 50 something species. And it's crazy because throughout the winter you might see 15.
00:22:58
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A good day. A good day. Right? And it's crazy because all of a sudden, literally, in one week, that number goes from 10 to 25. And you're like, whoa. Wait a minute, right? In a couple more weeks, that number is 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65. And it just keeps going up. And it's like, I got a game. I got a game. I got a game.
00:23:25
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Tell me, like, what's the bird every year that you forget exists until it comes back in the spring? That, oh, that you don't even, you don't even realize it exists. You just totally forget it exists anymore until you hear that call and it takes you a minute. You're like, what is that bird? And you're like, oh, duh.
00:23:44
Speaker
Like I saw that homie for like six months all year last year, but it's gone for six months. What about what about forget exists? I have to say it got to be a grassland bird. So it's either going to be the bobbling or the dick sizzle. Oh, that's a good one. See, I don't get a lot of dick sizzles, Ryan, but I have to I can drive and get some bobblings. But yeah.
00:24:05
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Bob a link is a good one. I imagine just being out with you the first time hearing that little sequence go off, man. You know, it's like little transformers in the middle of the prairie. I know. What are these little dudes? Oh, that would be dope. Yeah, mine is usually like a it's usually like a flycatcher or something like it's usually like a. Yeah. Yeah. Like I love that. That's one of my favorite and like because it's such a it's such like a call and response. Right. Because he does that. And I'd be like,
00:24:35
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I'm just saying, like, welcome back, homie. Wouldn't it be nice if they all told us what their name was, like, right away like that? I know. Yeah. You'd be like, bro, my name's not Peewee. My name's George. Oh, man. It do be those, like, common ones. Like, so what about a more common one, like a witchity, witchity, witchity? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Last time I heard that, I'm like, OK, we are definitely in spring migration right now. You know the ones that dig me.
Bird Personalities and Fun Analogies
00:25:05
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Yeah, they're always around, but they're like, they're grounded. They're more on the ground. They kind of low key. That's right. You hear them sometimes. It's like to pop up and curse you out. Yeah, and they'll just pop out of nowhere. Yeah, I feel like if I had to choose a small songbird to be in my gang to help me fight people, it would be a common yellow throat and a marsh friend.
00:25:28
Speaker
Those two, those two are ready to go. You make the rhyme noise, they pop right up on the, right up on the leaf or the marsh, and they'd be like, what's going on? It looks good. Right? They'd be like, what's good? And now they're giving you like all these really hard staccato, chittery notes, you know, and just like, all right, all right, all right. Every once in a while they'll just fly right at you.
00:25:49
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I know. They're definitely aggressive. They are. They are. I like them though. I think I find myself kind of shocked when I hear literally how big their voices are.
00:26:04
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I know people are always like when we, when we go out and in the spring and they get to, you know, get like a Carolina wren, just like Carolina wrens are like the Adele of the forest. Okay. Like you look at them and you're like, there's no way a voice that large comes from you. And then, and then they just do it again. It's just beautiful every time. Like it's not even.
00:26:28
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If I could sing like that, I would sing all the time, too. I'd be sitting on top of my little perch all day. I hope this podcast gets folks excited for those kinds of experiences, those kind of stories. And I think we're going to have a lot of those. We're going to have some guests. We're going to roll out some resources and some other stuff. And mostly, we're just going to have fun. We're going to find that bird joy, baby. And it's going to be absolutely lovely. I
Community Highlights and Unusual Sightings
00:26:51
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really cannot wait, man.
00:26:52
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Cause this is probably the best way to introduce it because literally all we did was just nerd out about birds last 30 minutes. So like, basically no script. We just literally just like, I mean, let's just talk about birds. What is happening in the world?
00:27:07
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If you want that, if you want those stories, like Jay said, we'll be a spot here. We're going to educate. I am a professor. So I do like to profess sometimes. So we'll educate on certain, on certain things. And you mentioned some of it, whether it's safety or whatever, bird identification, all these little things. And ultimately what we're going to want people to realize is kind of just bird as you are.
00:27:30
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Get what you want out of birding. Don't let anybody really tell you how you need to bird and hopefully we can give you just enough, a little bit more, just what you need, whatever. So hopefully you get something of value from us. Resources always, I think that's going to be a big one, keeping people in tune with what's going on.
00:27:49
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highlighting and spotlighting with the homies all around the country are doing in the burning space. I think that is something that you can expect from us is to really highlight our homies, the people that we look up to and consider friends in the industry that are doing great things. We're going to talk about what people got going on and spotlighting credible events or causes or whatever it may be all over the country, all over the globe, honestly, because we are all we're out here.
00:28:16
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We're all over the place. Speaking of, did you see that article on that yellow bill loon that showed up in the Bellagio fountains last week? Look, yellow bill loon. Listen, bro, I was in Vegas the week before for a wedding. Everybody sent me this. They're like, did you see this? I'm like, no, because I'm a clown. And I looked at the week earlier. That's why I didn't see it because I'm an idiot. But that's why that bird's supposed to be in the Arctic. It's not supposed to be down in Vegas.
00:28:42
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It happens, man. I mean, Wisconsin has been a weird place for these random birds, bro. I had American flamingos over the shoulder. Oh, actually, it was crazy. You just kayaking out to brown boobies. Yeah, brown boobies. You know, Rosie's Rosé spoonbills. We're going to have to do a whole episode. We're going to have to do a whole episode on the Rosé spoonbill, because I don't think people understand.
00:29:10
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No, no, I think the Rosé spoonbill is definitely worthy of episode. So we shall chop it up about that. A lot of those stories have come from guests and some of our friends. So like you mentioned, really excited to bring on guests and people that we adore.
00:29:26
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You know, the homies out there just that inspire, you know, they inspire us. They're inspiring people. They're doing the work, doing whatever we can to just get those stories out there, tell some stories, have some fun. And ultimately it's all about the bird joy. That's right. That's right. And I can't wait to, to be a forum where we can connect each other across this country, across the globe, right? It's just so exciting, honestly. That's great.
00:29:50
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Let's go, let's go. I'm ready to get burning now. I thought I was done burning for the day. No, no, honestly. No, I gotta go back outside. I was talking to my wife and we were talking about how we lost an hour of time, right? But then I was like, we gained an hour of daylight. We did.
00:30:12
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I was like, it's gonna be like 6.37 now when it's getting darker instead of 5.530. I can bird for two hours after dinner. There's definitely two bird outing season. Before and after work. That's what it is. Brother, awesome.
00:30:34
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Man, it's been great talking to you, bro. Yeah. Episode one. Other third one. Joy podcast. This is crazy. Beautiful man. This is crazy.
00:30:46
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can't wait to do the next one. Well, I want to thank everybody for joining us today on the bird joy podcast. We hope you enjoyed exploring and hearing our weird bird nerd stories about the world of birding, but really, really excited for everybody joining us today. I want to give a big shout out to our flock here in the state of Wisconsin, the BIPOC Birding Club of Wisconsin. You can check out our birding club at BIPOC Birding
00:31:10
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club.org beautiful and until next time my bird nerd homies want to give a shout out to the in color birding club here in Philly in color birding.org if you want to see what we're about and until next time yes please share subscribe shout out the pod to all your fellow birders help us spread a little bit of bird joy it's been one my guy peace brother peace