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This week I get into my year at the Learning Garden, have a great chat with Suzy Buttress of The Casual Birder Podcast, and I review a couple of books on Straw Bale Gardening. I have to apologize, near the end of the Podcast accidentally called Patrina Small by the name Patricia.

After speaking with Suzy Buttress I was still unable to work out the hawk that made an unscheduled appearance in the podcast, but in the process I did stumble onto All About Birds. Its linked to the Cornell Universities Merlin App database.  Here is a link to her appearance on the Hummingbirds Episode of the Varmints Podcast.

Here are the birds mentioned in the interview care of All About Birds.

• Collared Doves
• White Winged Pigeons
• Sharp Shinned Hawk
• Coopers Hawk
• Morning Dove
• Black Phoebe
• Californian Towhee

And here are some links to other things mentioned in the interview.

• Humming Bird Calls
• Structural Color
• Aotearoa's extinct bird calls
• Thousands Of Feral Lime Green Parakeets Call Bakersfield Home
• Silent Spring

Wrapping up the podcast I review the following books.

• Straw Bale Gardens Complete, Updated Edition: Breakthrough Method for Growing Vegetables Anywhere, Earlier and with No Weeding 2nd Edition by Joel Karsten
• Growing Vegetables in Straw Bales: Easy Planting, Less Weeding, Early Harvests. A Storey BASICS® Title Paperback by Craig LeHoullier

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