HeyJaredBuzz Blossom & Squeak
Buzz, Blossom & Squeak is a quiet, curious walk into the natural world right outside your door.You don’t need to be a scientist, a hardcore birder, or someone who hikes miles into the wilderness.
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Chimney Swifts - Can't Perch, Can't Walk, and Barely Lands (opens the original)
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# The Bird That Never Perches: A Chimney Swift Roost at Dusk This week I stood on a picnic table with a few hundred strangers, watching what looked like a tornado of birds pour into a school chimney. It took almost three hours, and by the end I understood exactly why people show up for this every single year. **A Bird Built Only for the Air** Chimney swifts eat, drink, bathe, and even mate in flight. Their feet are built for one thing: clinging to a rough vertical wall. They can't perch on a wir
129 - Five Games That Will Change How You Notice Nature (opens the original)
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I want to start with a confession: there have been entire walks, even hikes, where I got to the end and realized I couldn’t tell you a single thing I’d passed. My legs did the walk. The rest of me wasn’t there at all. I used to think that was just how I was built, ADHD, always a little scattered. Turns out noticing is a skill, and it’s trainable. Here are the tools I use to train it. Why noticing is different from just being outside. There’s a real difference between walking a trail to get your
128 - Science Behind 4 Smells You Notice Outdoors (opens the original)
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Ever walked past a bog and wondered why it smells nothing like your backyard after a rainstorm? Or caught that sharp green scent of fresh-cut grass and had no idea it’s actually a plant screaming for help? In this episode I go down a research rabbit hole into the chemistry behind the smells we associate with the outdoors, and it turns out almost none of them mean what we assume they mean. The rain smell has a name, and it’s not what causes it. Petrichor is the word for the scent after rain hits
127 - Fall Migration Already Started (And You Probably Missed It) (opens the original)
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It’s the end of July, and while the rest of us are still thinking pools and barbecues, the birds have already started leaving. Not in September like most of us assume — right now. Em and I have been noticing shorebirds we hadn’t seen since April, gathering in loose flocks on wires, and it turns out there’s an entire invisible clock that’s been counting down since the moment this year’s babies fledged. The Red-Winged Blackbird Timeline A newly fledged blackbird isn’t ready to migrate for weeks —
126 - Reading a Bird’s Strategy By Where It Stands (opens the original)
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I promised you a twist at the end of this one, and I’m going to make you wait for it, just like I made myself wait when I first noticed it. Because once you understand why a bird chooses the perch it chooses, you can’t unsee it — every fence wire, dead snag, and mudflat starts telling you a story. This episode grew out of a simple observation from a walk Em and I took a few summers ago, when we spotted two Say’s Phoebes doing two completely different things with two completely different perches.
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