06-11: Secrets of Cemetery Birding with Danielle Belleny
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In many many parts of the country, and the world, the most accessible greenspaces are cemeteries. And while they have a morbid reputation, they can offer lots of great nature opportunities for those willing to explore. Danielle Belleny is a wildlife biologist in San Antonio, Texas, a co-founder of Black Birders Week, and the author of the essay Lawn of the Dead: Finding Solace, Ecological Integrity, and Good Birding in America's Cemeteries, which will run in the next issue of Birding magazine. Her new book This is a Book for People who Love Birds is also due out next month. Also, some good new for a lovely birding site in South Texas.
Also, you can find lots of ABA folks at festivals this spring, including Nate at the Kansas Lek Treks prairie-chicken festival in April!
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| 0:33.2 | Well, welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. I'm Nate Swick. |
| 0:38.1 | Daylight savings time officially behind us now. |
| 0:41.5 | There's no denying that spring is on the way. |
| 0:45.6 | No doubt lots of birds will be making their way back into the ABA area. |
| 0:49.8 | Not too soon, though. |
| 0:51.1 | I want you to get a few years of birding under your belt. |
| 0:53.7 | One thing that always happens this time of year. and I feel it in myself as much as anybody. |
| 0:59.0 | Maybe once the weather turns a little, the resident species really starts singing. |
| 1:03.0 | But birders get a little bit out over our skis, as it were, in predicting migration. |
| 1:09.0 | Seems like every year at the end of March, we get reports of two early |
| 1:13.8 | warblers and two early buntings and too early gross peaks. |
| 1:17.7 | And while there are a number of early migrants moving through, things like gnat |
| 1:23.2 | threshers and some of the Orioles, the real push of migration, I know you hate to hear this, |
| 1:30.4 | but the real push of migration is still four, six weeks off. |
| 1:35.5 | So back off just a little bit. |
| 1:38.8 | We've still got some time. |
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