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Favoriting April 3, 2019: The Bird is the Word

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Kimzilla and Emily explore the world of birdwatching, but of course in typical IRL tradition, we couldn’t just talk to a typical birder, nope, instead we talk to Matt Smith who is a published writer, geographer, and web developer who has been chasing birds for most of his life and created a game called Fantasy Birder, where you virtually find birds using crowd sourced data. We also talk to Tony Croasdale, Environmental Education Program Specialist at Philadelphia Parks and Recreation and self- identified member of the DIY anarcho-punk community. Join us as we enter the sub-sub culture of birders (real and imaginary) on In Real Life.

Matt Smith’s Bird Fantasy Twitter Account

Facebook Fantasy Birding Support Group

Fantasy Birding Slack channel

American Bird Association article about Fantasy Birding

Audubon article about Birdpunk

Philly Parks and Recreation Tumbler Page



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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58am
Robert Tables:

Early bird!
  7:02pm
Danne D:

Yay :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
ifeelfatnsassy:

This opening theme is always such a damn pick me up after the weirdness preceding it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
ifeelfatnsassy:

It's the musical equivalent of the flash pen in Men In Black.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Aaron in Minneapolis:

Are you ladies gonna play any Snoop Dog tonight?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
ultradamno:

My cat is an avid birdwatcher.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
dale:

love the birdies. i feed them and make little houses for them and feel blessed when they move in.
  7:06pm
Johnzon:

one of the best fmu thesongs(listening on a delay) liked that wilson... owen? luke? clip...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Always looking for an opportunity to point to Mandarin Duck! twitter.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
dale:

but it's horrifying when a hawk comes down and takes a cardinal and you hear the screaming...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
ultradamno:

Dinosaur decedents.
  7:08pm
Kate:

@dale, you and me, I have Merlin and my phone and when they sing I play their bird songs back to them,
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
dale:

montgolfier didn't take his wife or mistress up in the balloon?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
Phillippe Bastille:

Our prior Jack Russel took a woodpecker right off the tree.
  7:08pm
Kate:

sorry, I have the Merlin APP on my phone
Avatar 7:09pm
Richard S:

Hello!
  7:10pm
Kate:

pigeons in brooklyn!
  7:11pm
Johnzon:

*themesongs
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
dale:

kate - do they respond? a little one legged finch ate seed out of my hand a couple weeks ago. he was bold because he had to be. so cool!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
queems:

we have a lot of cardinals
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
queems:

and squirrels, who cram their fat asses into the bird feeders
  7:13pm
Danne D:

Yay us :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
dale:

i had an eastern bluebird for the first time and so i made a couple of houses. as soon as i put them up he disappeared but some other birdies seem to be interested so we'll see what happens.
  7:14pm
Kate:

@dale they DO respond, usually they just look around a bit, but some of them fly up to our window and look in. One of them cussed me out completely.
  7:17pm
Kate:

@dale that is so exciting, I would love to have one eat out of my hand. Online, I've seen hummingbirds drink out of coke bottle caps that people are holding.
  7:17pm
Kate:

@queems I thought all the squirrels were at my house
  7:18pm
OSC:

Hey~ It is OSC from Nevada. There are geese that visit annually here. They pair for life & each time they fly over my place they are honking & carrying on faster than a gaggle of Spanish women!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
Phillippe Bastille:

The house we are moving to is on a little cove just off the Chesapeake. We've seen mallards, a kingfisher, a blue heron, and an osprey so far. Neighbor says he's seen a wood duck, a red head duck, and a a bald eagle but I have not yet.
Avatar 7:19pm
kimzilla:

@Johnzon- It was from the Big List, and yes, Owen Wilson, along with Jack Black and Steve Martin.
  7:19pm
Dez:

Otis is barking at the woodpeckers. ""Its coming from inside the house!!"
  7:19pm
Danne D:

Yay Numbers :)
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kimzilla:

@Dez, hahaha!
  7:20pm
Emily:

@Kate I’ll have to get you one of those hummingbird feeder hats.
  7:20pm
Danne D:

there was a cardinal hanging outside our window today. I think the poor guy was confused he kept flying into the window :(
  7:21pm
Danne D:

Yez Dez
Avatar 7:21pm
Richard S:

I have a 4th floor apartment; my living room window overlooks a little copse of mixed trees. I have seen so many different species without ever having to step outside.
  7:22pm
Kate:

hummingbird feeder hats are a thing!?!
  7:24pm
Danne D:

Saddle River County Park in Saddle Brook/Fair Lawn/Paramus is a great source for chasing pokemon go characters as well as cool birds :)
  7:25pm
fullmetalmonkey:

Great show tonight. Birds rule. I have a small garden on fire escape in Hoboken that has plants and a small bird bath. In the summer all kinds of birds come in and out of garden all day long. If I'm lucky something strange and rare will land in it.
  7:29pm
fullmetalmonkey:

And I've never claimed to see a bird I didn't see :)
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Richard S:

It is just so freakin' easy to birdwatch. And it gets you outside, and closer to the natural world.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:30pm
Phillippe Bastille:

Great show everyone. Chore time and gotta run
Avatar 7:31pm
zpulpa:

Whoa this is inspiring! I want to be a bird watcher!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
dale:

just buy sunflower seeds. don't get the crap with millet in it. you'll draw the most birds with sunflower seeds and suet cakes.
  7:33pm
fullmetalmonkey:

Watching birds is total Zen. I can feel my blood pressure going down as I'm watching. For real. Lol. Well the wine might also be helping.
Avatar 7:33pm
kimzilla:

Hatebeak is featured in this episode! Thanks Jeff Moore for the suggestion!
  7:34pm
fullmetalmonkey:

Sunflower seeds bring squirrels. Squirrels are the "kill joy" of bird watching.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Sometimes it's neat to see what the birds see. youtu.be...
  7:34pm
Emily:

@Kate https://www.etsy.com/listing/190796099/hat-hummingbird-feeder?ref=shop_home_active_3&crt=1
  7:37pm
fullmetalmonkey:

Emily. That hat would definite be a hit at the beach. Lol
  7:37pm
Danne D:

Yez The Cure
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
dale:

ANYTHING brings squirrels. and chipmunks. and deer. and bears. most energy inside sunflower seeds.
  7:40pm
Emily:

The bird is so close to his face! That would make me nervous. That sharp little beak is awfully close to his eyeballs...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
dale:

..and i enjoy watching them as well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
Doug in JC:

There's a peregrine falcon nest on a building a few over from WFMU HQ... you can watch them nesting here: www.conservewildlifenj.org...
Avatar 7:41pm
kimzilla:

I used to be obsessed with bird cams, there was one with these owls, it was great... until it wasn't. Nature can be really sad.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
Doug in JC:

Oh, yeah. I have Seen Things
  7:42pm
fullmetalmonkey:

Emily. Cheap sunglasses will solve that phobia.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Doug in JC:

I knew Tony ~20 years ago and had no idea he was a crazy birder until the Audubon article came out
  7:45pm
Emily:

Or goggles.
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kimzilla:

Who was asking for the duck story?? You got it!
  7:45pm
Tom:

@Doug in JC That is so cool .. thanks for the turn on!
  7:46pm
Kate:

@ Emily that feeder is super cool, but I think I might just hold it instead. I don't do well with goggles.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
Doug in JC:

@Tom you're welcome! The mom falcon perches on the church behind our house sometimes. It's cool seeing her in action
  7:48pm
fullmetalmonkey:

@Emily. Googles would be over kill unless the humming bird was carrying a coconut
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
ultradamno:

Birds make me nervous. I think Hitchcock made that movie for me. Like when you see tons of them all lined up on power lines...up to something.
  7:49pm
fullmetalmonkey:

Goggles lol
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
queems:

i love to watch videos of parrots doing weird stuff
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
chris:

lots of great memories of my pops during this show. he was an avid birder his whole life. he would whistle the bird songs to call them out. now, every time i see or hear a bird, i remember him. good stuff.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

On the farm as a kid, I noticed my dad skip around killdeer nests out in the field. When I was driving the tractor in my teens, I'd also drive around them. Mom killdeer running off faking a broken wing. She probably thought her ruse was effective against the massive roaring tractor that spared her nest.
  7:52pm
Kate:

@fullmetalmonkey hummingbirds can't carry coconuts
  7:53pm
fullmetalmonkey:

@kimzilla. Fishing is nothing like bird watching. Unless your using bread as bait on the end of a stun gun. Then it would be similar
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
Becky:

Did you guys get my email?!?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
dale:

i would plow a field a a kid and the robins would follow and pull worms out of the freshly turned furrows.
  7:54pm
fullmetalmonkey:

@kate. If it was a European humming bird perhaps
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

It seems to me that there anren't as many songbirds as there used to be. Plenty of vultures wheeling overhead, though. I don't think I've seen a meadowlark back home for maybe twenty years. I remember hearing their calls around sunset.
  7:56pm
Tom:

@dale and then me and my dad would search for arrow heads and such!
  7:56pm
Danne D:

uh oh did Becky get swooped away by a giant bird?!? :(

btw Great Show Emily And Kimzilla!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

@dale - We'd see gulls come from who-knows-where to follow our plow. No lakes or oceans for miles of the place.
Avatar 7:57pm
Richard S:

@ken - Habitat loss..... The native songbirds can't handle the urban environment, and are squeezed out by House Sparrows and Starlings (both of which were deliberately introduced from Great Britain).
  7:57pm
Danne D:

woooo go Path Train!!!! :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
ultradamno:

Or at college parties, there was always somebody with their living conversation starter.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Becky:

I’m on my way!!! Am really close!!!!
  7:58pm
Kate:

@fullmetalmonkey I think you mean a European swallow.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
dale:

ken - go to any mcdonald's parking lot and there they are eating french fries.
  7:59pm
Danne D:

cool giant bird is bringing Becky to the station :)
Avatar 7:59pm
Richard S:

By the way, Mets up over the Marlins 3-0 after 6; deGrom helps his own cause with a HR
  8:00pm
fullmetalmonkey:

@kate. Lol yeah that little guy is a heavy lifter
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
ultradamno:

Isn't there an NPR or PBS one?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

So long, bird-brains!
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