Episodes
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Humans aren't the only creatures who have a need to nurture and help others. (This program's transcript is the second half of the linked blogpost.)
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More evidence that Laura's fifth grade teacher was the very best. (The transcript for this program is the first half of the linked blogpost.)
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Missing episodes?
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Reports of BB's demise were premature. When that happens to human beings, it can sometimes change history.
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The banded Pileated Woodpecker who has been visiting Laura's yard for the past four years disappeared after a Cooper's Hawk was hunting in the vicinity. Laura expected the worst. But spoiler alert: he turned up again on Friday the thirteenth. While he was here, Laura recorded a video of him, which is the drumming sound at the beginning and ending of this program.
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Laura remembers her fifth grade teacher, who taught her, via Rodgers and Hammerstein's original stage musical *The Sound of Music*, that real heroes stand up against cruel regimes even when there is no way to stop it.
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How do birds fare during frigid weather?
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General facts about albatrosses and good news about a very special one.
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Laura remembers three Thanksgivings of the past, and how a Pileated Woodpecker keeps those memories alive.
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Every environmental organization down in the Gulf during the BP oil disaster had to abide by a 5-year moratorium on ALL of their eye-witness information except as BP allowed. National Audubon did way more than honor BP's rules--they publicly parroted all of BP's false claims minimizing how bad the disaster was.
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Who can we trust after a major disaster?
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Laura visited one of the four rehab centers allowed to treat birds oiled in the Deepwater Horizon spill.
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Laura talks about the extremely low-tech and ineffective way BP tried to protect beaches and islands after the spill, and the even worse way they approached cleanup. There are many photos and a video on the accompanying blog post at (https://lauraerickson.substack.com/p/getting-away-with-murder-part-2)
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As Laura faces her 73rd birthday in what feels like a hopeless time, she looks to chickadees. (This program was reworked from the "For the Birds" program from October 12, 2010.)
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The BP oil spill was when Laura learned just how much power a corporation has over individuals; well-meaning and well-respected organizations and institutions; and our government.
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Billionaires and corporations have too much power over us, birds, and the environment we need and share.
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Clean energy should be making us less, not more, reliant on huge transmission lines.
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Power transmission lines can be very harmful for birds and human beings.
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Laura recently returned from the American Ornithological Society's annual meeting. Some things have changed, and some remain the same.
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