BIRD HUGGER

Nov 21 2024 116 ep. 30 mins 6
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Love gardening and birds and want to help Mother Nature? Join host Catherine Greenleaf, former gardening columnist for the Boston Herald Sunday Magazine and a certified wildlife rehabilitator with 20 years of experience rescuing and rehabilitating injured wildlife, for discussions about organic gardening and restoring native habitat to help the birds and other wildlife in your backyard. Catherine Greenleaf talks about the natural history of birds and interviews the leading experts about how to turn your backyard into a native oasis for birds and pollinators.

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Making Bird Calls With Dan Gardoqui

Nov 21 2024 28 mins  
Can you mimic bird calls? Today our guest is Dan Gardoqui, founder of Lead With Nature, a nature guide business that conducts bird walks. Dan, who was instrumental in creating the best-selling book, What the Robin Knows, is an expert bird mimic and nature educator who is urging all of us to spend time in the wild observing and listening to birds. Join him on a nature or bird walk a

ENCORE PRESENTATION: Northeast Native Plant Primer With Uli Lorimer

Nov 06 2024 26 mins  
Today we talk with Uli Lorimer, author of the new book, The Northeast Native Plant Primer: 235 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden. Uli is the horticulture director at the Native Plant Trust. We talk about why natives are so important for birds and other wildlife. He will also walk us through the various successions of plants that occur once you turn your lawn into a meadow as well

The Search For Lost Birds With John Mittermeier

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Oct 10 2024 24 mins  
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Aug 29 2024 23 mins  
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Aug 15 2024 22 mins  
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ENCORE PRESENTATION: The Benefits Of Bare-Root Plantings With Becky Brewer

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