The beat is happy to be sponsored by Haiku Box, an AI-powered device that helps you identify the birds in your neighborhood by their songs and calls.

The founder, Dr David Mann, has a PhD in Bioacoustics and created the Haiku Box in collaboration with the experts over at the Cornell

lab of ornithology, aka the study of birds. I got into birding big time over the past year and

the haiku box has made it so easy to identify and learn about new birds.

I just plugged it in outside, connected to Wi-Fi, and now I have 24-7 monitoring of all bird sounds

in my yard.

I even have mine set up to notify me whenever a new bird is detected

so I could run outside and see them for myself which was how I was able to see a

tiny hummingbird fighting off a giant red-shouldered hawk that was visiting my yard for the first time.

So if you want to connect more with your surroundings and learn about all the birds

living or migrating through your garden, you will appreciate how passive and easy to use

the haikubox is.

Haikubox is available at hikubox.com and Amazon for an extra 10% off use the code

birdbeat on the haiku box store all one word birdbeat. If you ever spent a hot day on the garden Beat.

If you ever spent a hot day on the garden and then gotten dehydrated at the end of the day,

congratulations. You're me.

I do that all of the time until the last couple of months or so

when I started using electrolytes, which

brings us to the sponsor of today's episode, Element.

Element is a zero sugar electrolyte drink mix, perfect for gardeners and anyone who

enjoys the outdoors, and if you don't like

mixing it in they also have sparkling waters. So I've been using the element for a couple

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