Bird Chat with The Edinburgh Birdwatcher #111

The Casual Birder Podcast

Euan, The Edinburgh Birdwatcher, is celebrating 20 years of birding. He tells Suzy about his birding style and what birdwatching means to him.

Also, there’s big news from the Blue Tits that Suzy is watching via remote camera and, in Last Call, listen to a glorious, uninterrupted 5 minutes of dawn chorus birdsong from the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire.

Timestamps & Links

00:00:00 Pre-roll and intro music

00:00:56 Opening & Announcements

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00:02:58 Euan, The Edinburgh Birdwatcher, Part 1

The Edinburgh Birdwatcher website

00:14:15 Podcast Promo - The Wild Podcast

The Wild Podcast

00:15:12 Euan, The Edinburgh Birdwatcher, Part 2

00:23:28 Support the Show

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00:24:22 Euan, The Edinburgh Birdwatcher, Part 3

Euan's past appearances Episode 48

Euan's past appearances Episode 74

00:37:08 Suzy’s birding notes

Suzy has been visiting the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire and spent a lovely day birding with listener Anneke.

00:41:12 Nestbox News

The Blue Tits have been busy: 11 eggs being incubated in one box, and a nest finally being built in the other

00:44:28 What have you seen?

Tell me about your bird sightings

00:46:06 Wrap and Close

00:46:50 Last Call

Last Call is an uninterrupted recording of bird song and sounds from a specific location, that gives you a flavour of what it was like to be there.

This episode, Last Call is provided by John Buttress, recorded in the Forest of Dean on 16th April 2022 at 6:00am

In the layers of sound you can hear:

Great Tit, Carrion Crow, Blackbird, Nuthatch, Blue Tit, the high-pitched call of a Goldcrest, Wren, Blackcap, Stock Dove, a Pheasant calling and flapping its wings in display and a great Spotted Woodpecker drumming

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