Some Cool Podcast and Blog Stuff

I got an e-mail from Larry at the Brownstone Birding blog this morning letting me know that he and I had gotten a mention on one of Steve Moore's BirdwatchRadio podcasts. Steve also mentioned talking to Dawn and Jeff (of Dawn's Bloggy Blog) at the recent Space Coast Birding Festival. You can listen to the podcast at this link: http://www.birdwatchradio.com/podcast.htm
If you're an iTunes subscriber, you can listen and subscribe to all of Steve's BirdWatchRadio podcasts, or listen on-line at his website (posted on my sidebar links under "Podcasts I Enjoy"). Steve always has interesting and fun programs and you never know when he's going to interview a birder or blogger you might know!

Several weeks ago Jennifer Schlick invited me to contribute a blog post on white-tailed deer for her "Animals of Western New York" blog (I think it's a pretty sure bet that white-tailed deer in western New York look and behave the same as our Minnesota deer!) This week I finally got my pictures and story ideas together and sent everything off to her. Here's the link to my post on Jennifer's blog. Thanks Jennifer for giving me this opportunity to contribute to your blog!

iPod Fun

The Black Friday sale-priced iPod Nano I ordered on-line was delivered to my front door sometime while I was at work on Tuesday. I haven't had much time to diddle around with it yet, but did get the battery charged up. This afternoon I decided to try and download a podcast and see what that was all about. I went to the Bird Watcher's Digest website because I knew that they had podcasts available of birdy topics I would enjoy listening to. It was pretty easy, I just clicked on the "Visit Podcast Central" button and there it was: This Birding Life with host Bill Thompson, III.

I browsed the list of titles and chose the podcast titles I wanted to listen to and within minutes, I was learning all about BirdJam......

from two of its creators: Jay and Denese (complete with pictures!) Isn't this cool??

Next I listened to my friend Julie's story of Fergus the bullfrog called "Paradise Lost" from her great book "Letters from Eden."

I don't know about you, but when I was a little kid I loved it when my mom read stories to us, and that's exactly what listening to these stories was like. Somebody who knows about these things please tell me: I can download audio books to the iPod too, can't I? Then I'll really be able to maximize my knitting time!

Oh, and if any of you know of other sites with bird and/or nature podcasts I can add to my collection, would you please share them with me in the comments section? Thanks