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The Bird Banter Podcast Episode #20 with The Willettes

Laurel, Faye, Carol and Diane with Ken Brown, the birding instructor for the classes where most of the group met each other.


For my 20th episode I broke the trend of one guest, and invited three of the Willettes over to my condo for wine (the lure), snacks, to watch the sailboat races on Commencement Bay, and to record episode #20.
It’s a cool story, listen to hear that. Here I’ll post some photos of the Willettes. Photos are one thing never in short supply when they are along.
Here is Carol, Diane and Faye with me at an ABC Birding Club meeting.


This is Laurel, Faye and Diane in the outfits they wore to the podcast recording session. They had planned to wear the Citrene Warbler sweatshirts, but the 90+ degree weather prompted them to have the sweatshirts loosely draped and to wear matching “Willettes” designed t-shirts.
This is several Willettes with Will Brooks (episode #19) at his ABC talk.

Sergio from Raptours spoke at one of our meetings, with the obligatory Willettes group photo.

Lest you think the Willettes are all fashion and no birding, you need to know that they are all avid birders, listers, traveling birders, and volunteers. Thanks Willettes for a nice evening and doing the recording.

Laurel with Carol Smith in yet another matching T.

Enjoy.

Good birding. Good day!

The Bird Banter Podcast Episode #17: Memorial Day Weekend Notes

Pigeon Guillemot on its nest. Most of the nests appeared to be deeper in burrows, and the sitting birds were not visible, but this one was in plain sight.

On this episode Ed talks about Memorial Day weekend just past and memories of this weekend gone by, along with the recent ABC Birding Club presentation by Ken Brown (episodes #2 & #6) on bird names and avian nomenclature. Check out the ABC Birding website post on this talk.

The sandy bank with the burrows looked like this.

At Anderson Island this past weekend there were nesting Pigeon Guillemots. They make burrows in the sandy banks, along with Northern Rough-winged Swallows, and Ed happend onto two separate colonies with 20+ birds each.

The Willettes are a group of female birders in the ABC Club that travel together, drink wine together, bird together and dress in matching bird-related attire.

Laurel, Faye, Ken, Carol and Diane (4 Willettes and Ken)

Thanks for visiting.

Good birding. Good day!