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Spark Bird: Nick Belardes and the Vermilion Flycatcher

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🗓️ 16 June 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

“It’s a jewel.”

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0:00.0

This is Bird Note. Several years ago, author Nick Belardez was walking at a park near his home in San Luis Obispo, California.

0:09.0

When I saw this guy, he seemed in tune with birds, he was listening, doing his thing.

0:15.0

So I interrupted this moment, I kind of wanted what he had.

0:19.8

This hidden knowledge, this open-minded love of nature, of what can surround you.

0:26.9

So I asked, hey man, what's the coolest bird around here right now?

0:31.3

And he had an immediate answer. he said for a million flycatcher it's a jewel.

0:37.0

He googled for the bird and found a place where there had been several recent sightings and went there with his wife the next day.

0:48.0

But the weather...

0:51.0

Wasn't cooperating.

0:53.0

It's rainy and misty, bordering on miserable.

0:57.0

I'm just thinking, this is the worst moment to try and find a needle in a haystack.

1:02.0

I was about to give up when my wife spots something flutter out of some reeds.

1:08.7

I mean this thing is a glorious ruby. It's a shining jewel of plumage and attitude.

1:14.8

This bird is a show-off.

1:18.1

Now, Nick goes birding almost every day, but he remembers that first vermilion flycatcher is a turning point.

1:26.0

I still feel the fire from that little encounter and the electrifying flames of that ruby plumage and still feel what they seared into me.

1:39.2

For Bird Note, I'm Mark Graham Hill.

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