Hello, I'm Evan Brand. Welcome back to the podcast. Let's dive in and talk about some birds. Man, I got some good feedback from you all. Thank you. You know, I do so many things on the show and then nobody says anything. So I'm like, do people enjoy that? And when I talked about birds, everyone's like, wow, this is great. Do more birds. Okay, so let's do more birds. I'm going to play you some sounds. I tell you, it's really, really fun this time of the year because things change so quickly in the woods. And if you live near the woods, things

change so quickly if you pay attention. See, most people don't pay attention. They got headphones

in their ears all the time, which is fine because maybe you're listening to me on headphones.

That's a good use of headphones. But, you know, I try to listen to the natural world and not miss out on stuff.

And over the last six weeks or so, the sounds have changed rapidly and significantly compared to the sounds of winter and early, early spring before anything really got moving.

So I'll play some sounds and then we'll talk about what we've been hearing because things are moving.

And we've got a lot of new seasonal visitors to at least this part of North America.

Okay, that's a hard one. I bet 99% of you're not going to know that one. So that's a red-headed woodpecker, which is different than the red-bellied woodpecker.

A lot of people think the red-bellied woodpeckers are red-headed.

It's not totally different.

The red-headed are awesome.

They need dead trees to survive, and their beaks did not evolve to be as hard and rigid as other woodpeckers. So their softer beak requires softer, more dead trees to actually make a cavity to nest and find food.

So we're lucky that we've got some dead-ass trees around here where we see red-headed woodpeckers literally every day.

So they've been around here, so they're not a new visitor, but they're so much fun I had to mention them.

All right, let's move on, see if you know this one. A lot of you should know this one.

Okay, that's easy.

If you know anything about Bob White Quails, that's awesome.

We had one on our fence post this morning,

and I've got about one acre that I tilled up that we're turning into a wildflower patch.

And so maybe he's scoping it out because they're starting to get long. So maybe he's scoping

it out. You know, Bob White Quails have declined so much over the last 50 years because of the

way we've changed farming. Small family farms are no longer and big

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