Brian Laird on W.N.C. and for our last few minutes today and for the week welcome to spring here on May 3rd

When the weather keeps switching back and forth between winter and summer right sometimes? Sometimes in the same day.

Flowers are blooming, pollen is floating,

and oh, birds are flying, migrating to be exact.

It's peak migration season, as you birders out there know. So let's talk

birds for our last few minutes today. At WNYC we're blessed to have some

birders among us. Kate Hines will be hosting all of it shortly for one, and my guest for this,

Jason Saul, WNY's assistant program director and a former managing producer for Bird Note.

Hey Jason, welcome to the show.

Good morning, Brian.

Thrilled to be here.

So is this the best time of year for Birders?

Yeah, it's really fantastic.

In the New York area is when a lot of our migrants are neotropical migrants which means

from South America and Central America are starting to arrive in our area and

we're getting bird alerts from the bird Twitter accounts just about every day and they're really just starting to show up and starting to sing.

You mean they don't fly to Texas and then Governor Abbott deports them to New York?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha New York? There is a lot of fun conversation about migrants and the movement of people as well as the movement of animals and a lot of the people who are arriving in New York are probably

familiar with some of the birds that are arriving here right now.

We're going to get some birding tips for this time of year from Jason here, but listeners do you have a question about the birds or birding?

What was your spark bird, as I think they call it in that world?

If you're already a birding

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