Ben and Bill take a break during the Outdoor Retailer show in Denver, Colorado, to talk about the products, trends, and environmental awareness they found at this major event for retail stores. Like Johnny Appleseed, they planted the seeds of birding awareness among the many cool folks and companies… Read more »
The stoke is high for Ben and Bill’s upcoming trips to Man Camp (People Camp) in West Virginia and to Colorado for the Outdoor Retailer Show. In this episode, their Zugunruhe has them all over the place topicwise, including fledglings at feeders, higher hummer numbers, famous Birding Expo keynote speakers, the new Duck Stamp, and the demise of… Read more »
Recorded live in three parts during the recent Bird Watcher’s Digest Reader Rendezvous trip to northern Colorado, this episode features lots of voices. Bill and Ben welcome special guest Clay Taylor of Swarovski Optik to talk about birding optics and his most recent life bird. BWD‘s own Emily Jones joins in as do many of… Read more »
The gents talk via Skype about their personal fitness regimens, post-spring bird action, appreciating nesting birds, a booby in Maine, jinx birds for 2018, the upcoming Colorado Reader Rendezvous, legalized marijuana and the implications for bird feeding, birds you cannot find by seeking them, their first-ever trip to the Outdoor Retailer Show, and whether or… Read more »
Ed Kanze won the Birder of the Year 2017 contest with his essay, “Find a Bird, Get a Life,” which ran in the March/April 2017 issue of Bird Watcher’s Digest. Recently having claimed his prize: a trip to Costa Rica, courtesy of Swarovski Optik, he submitted this story: Costa Rica with Swarovski By Ed Kanze… Read more »
Ben is back from Alaska and is headed to Maine for birding festivals. The guys chat about their upcoming travels, the advantages of spotting scopes and when to carry them, carbon-fiber tripods, missed birds and bonus birds, and the joy of having kids smarter than they are. Finally, they reveal their species totals in the… Read more »
Recorded outside in the bucolic setting at Opossum Creek Retreat during the New River Birding and Nature Festival in Fayetteville, West Virginia, this episode finds the boys talking about this spring’s slow migration, the amazing birder/naturalist Mark Garland, the hot tub origin story of Redstart Birding, birding etiquette, dealing with SOBs (Spouses of Birders), hot… Read more »
This episode is a crazy quilt of topics including an overview of spring birding festivals, a review of the guys’ travel plans, the technological challenges of list keeping, the humor of Al Batt, Audubon’s Elephant Folio, loud rock concerts, choosing the best optics, and a special musical interlude from a podcast listener. And a sort-of update… Read more »
By Diane Porter Birds fly, innocent of national borders. They don’t get their passports stamped at the airport, but they carry the story of one nation to another. A Wilson’s warbler that I welcome back to Iowa in May tells me that a patch of forest in Central America is still there. Some countries where… Read more »
Back in the USA, the boys are excited about waterfowl watching season. Ben talks about his bout with Duck Eye and how the Swarovski BTX scope cured him. Bill talks about #TamronTuesday and the opening day of the new baseball season. They also chat about the challenges of the Global Big Year Challenge™ and their… Read more »
