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More Notes on The Bird Banter Podcast Episode #39 with Rob Porter


White-crowned Sparrow in full song

When I stumbled across the Birdsong Podcast I just loved it. I felt like I was spending a little time birding in with a friend in a area with a representative eastern U.S. avifauna. I heard the narrator quietly walking through the woods, marshes and fields while giving a quiet play-by-play, or really bird-by-bird narrative of what we were hearing. It is simple, novel and well done. Just flat-out cool stuff for a birder to hear IMHO.

In brushy habitat a good guess in our area to the identity of any loud repeated birdsong or call of a bird you cannot locate is likely to be this Bewick’s Wren.

You can find his introductory episode at this link on iTunes

You can also visit the Songbirding Website to get other feed links.

Here is a link to the Birding by Ear series I talk about in the intro to this episode.  This is the Eastern U.S. course, there is also a series for the Western U.S. birds.  

The Ka-brick call of this Ash-throated Flycatcher to me sounds like a referee’s whistle.

If you have other podcasts you love, please leave info in the comments section.

Thanks for listening. Until next time. Good birding. Good day!