My friend the starling would like to say "be easy on me"

This is a short podcast defending this magnificent bird from back home.

The Yucatan Peninsula and the affect hurricanes coupled with global warming have on migratory birds. Here is Antonio Cellis, a bunch of birds recorded in Redmond, WA, and a soundscape from the Yucatan.

Will the threat of drilling ever go away? Unless we make this place a "class 1" wilderness it won't. Should we stand up for what we believe or let big money oil companies dictate to us what we can and can't have?

Bird sounds from the refuge at Sunset Pass and Andy Keller join this podcast from the refuge. Listen to Jaegers and Longspurs with the odd Loon thrown in for good measure.....

Bluethroat

A small robin-like bird, the male is unmistakable in spring with his bright blue throat, bordered below with bands of black, white and chestnut. Its central throat spot can be white or chestnut. They can be quite secretive, flicking into the cover of a bush with a flash of their chestnut tail patches.

First of all I feel I have to apologize for the lack of podcasts this year, I had all good intensions to keep them rolling but my work has gotten in the way, now I have to produce these great little broadcasts when I can…..Thank god for people like David Dawson of “on the wing� and the RSPB to fill in these huge gaps I create.I have many podcasts in the can as they say and hope to produce them a little later in the year including my trips to Mexico and the threatened Arctic national wildlife refuge.For now let me play you a delightful recording made in South-east Arizona on pursuit of the elusive Whiskered screech owl……Ramsey canyon was the setting; we stayed in the B&B next to the Nature conservancy headquarters. Each night we went out in search of the owl and finally……