how birds find their food, with ellen blackstone of ‘birdnote’
How do birds get their food, and what do they eat, anyway? Well that depends on the bird, and Ellen Blackstone of BirdNote.org has some answers. A million people a day and more than 200 radio markets hear the 2-minute public radio show called BirdNote, and now “BirdNote” is a book too, which Ellen edited.
Read along as you listen to the Aug. 20, 2018 edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. You can subscribe to all future editions on iTunes or Stitcher (and browse my archive of podcasts here).
how birds find food, with ellen blackstoneQ. I’m so glad to finally talk to you on the air. The book is so much fun.
A. We had fun doing it. It was hard work. We had to translate the book from the stories from the radio presentation to the printed page, but it was really fun.
Q. Yes, and I love the fact they’re illustrated. The illustrations are very charming. I was at a friend’s house recently, not far from me, a farmer friend, and she had it on the dining table. And I said, “Where’d you get that?” and she said I took it out of the library because it looked so good.
A. Well, in the library. We’re happy to hear that.
Q. In Nowheresville, New York, we had it in the library.
A. That’s great, that’s great.
Q. So I was mentioning Phoebes a kind of fly catcher I guess, in the intro and are they are fly catcher I can’t remember. No they’re not really. Well what are they? Are they a fly catcher? Yes.
A. It’s a flycatcher.
Q. So who else grabs dinner out of thin air like that?
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