Weekend Birder

153 Birding Your Own Way - with Sean

Weekend Birder

Show Notes

You don’t need the lingo to love birds. Comedian Kirsty Webeck chats about birdwatching on tour, car park sightings, accidental adventures and why everyone is allowed to enjoy looking at birds.

Birds featured: Superb Fairywren, Superb Lyrebird

Episode illustration: Female Superb Fairywren 🎧 Show notes and transcript - https://weekendbirder.com/podcast/ 🐦‍⬛ Instagram - https://instagram.com/weekend.birder 🦆 Facebook - https://facebook.com/weekend.birder

🔊 Recordings by Marc Anderson are licenced from https://wildambience.com 🎵 Theme music is Swing Joyful Tune by Audiosphere

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