Birding in Galveston

Today, Doug Pike interviews Anna Deichmann about bird life in Galveston.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 4 (00:45):
Bright welcome board.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Thank you all for listening to fifty plus. I certainly
do appreciate it. Will you got any weekend plans? We
had a nice weekend coming up. Oh God, get your
microphone down there.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
I'm sorry, Lily Kirkcat looked like a satellite weekend plans?

Speaker 2 (01:05):
What are you doing? I have known special with your lady.
Maybe good for you, man, good for you?

Speaker 4 (01:12):
I will be.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
I'm well, I'm actually I'm gonna kind of kick it
off this afternoon. I'm gonna go work on a new
golf swing. I've got planet in my head now. By
my friend Tommy O'Brien out at Blackhawk. If he wasn't
such a good instructor. I probably ignore him, but he is,
and he knows my swing pretty well, and he reminds
me of Jim Murphy years ago over at Sugar Creek,

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who helped me through a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Of issues with my golf swing.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
I'm still not pro caliber, but at least my handicap
is coming down. I'm back right on the verge of
single digits again, and I think if I get a
couple of more scores posted that I shot recently, that's
gonna happen. Might cost me money with the guys I
play with to have a lower handicap, because we're all
very honest about those, but nonetheless, I would rather lose

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a couple of bucks than have a higher handicap.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
So anyway, that's what I'm gonna work on.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I'm'll probably do a little bit of that this afternoon
that I've got to swing by Berry Hill out there
in sugar Land and have a visit with the owner
about maybe scoring us a little food around here. You
up for that, but for you and I, or for
the whole office, for the whole office, and possibly for
you and me, well see, I hope are included in

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the office house. We should be at least if especially
if I'm gonna cut the deal. Yeah, it'll be all right.
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dot net. Wee can. Weather still looking pretty good, add
warm for February, really highs in the eighties until Monday,
when we catch a little cool front that also might

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bring some rain. Add better rain chances Tuesday through Thursday.
A little bit more cooling there may be either it's
either a long drawn out dropping temperature from one cold front,
or it might be back to back little ones. But
in any event, it's still gonna be warm for about
three days and then we'll cool off to more Februaryan temperatures.

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Is that a word will February And I've never heard
heard think what it is?

Speaker 5 (03:39):
Now?

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Then bye, gosh, call Miriam Webster. And tell them to
go ahead and get that put in there. I don't
care if I get credit for it's no big deal
in the markets. Thanks to Houston gooldexchange dot Com. All
four indicators in the red today. And I think if
you're if someone, if you're someone who just can help.

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But look, every time, every time you get on your computer,
you check everything. You might have lost a little bit
of money today, But most of us at our ages
have already shifted into a little bit more conservative investments
and shouldn't really feel much. Oil. Oil was up a tad,
but not enough to get it above seventy one dollars

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just yet per barrel.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
And hopefully we'll.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
We'll see that trend continue downward, not upward. It's hard
to tell, really, a lot of things, a lot of
things are in flux around the world. We'll get it,
we'll figure it out, and we're on a good track.
I feel gold rebounded a little bit from yesterday's big dump,
up seven dollars and fifty cents last time I looked,
which wasn't that long ago, to two thousand, eight hundred

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and eighty four dollars. Ann ounce, Will you got the
clock fixed?

Speaker 4 (04:55):
Did you waited tar you.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
It was waiting for you to who fixed it?

Speaker 4 (05:01):
You were Tom?

Speaker 2 (05:01):
I did you sure? Yes? So if I asked Tom,
he'd say, yeah, we'll fixed it. Tom's not even gonna
know what was wrong. He didn't even know what was broke.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
So do you know what was wrong with it?

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yeah, it just didn't want to connect. That's a that's
a cop out, that's a default reason. No will Well,
I've got two and a half minutes. That's good to know, though.
Remember back in December when NFL quarterback Joe Burrow's house
was burgalized at burglar rised? Do you remember that?

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Well?

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Up in Ohio?

Speaker 2 (05:34):
My I don't know. Well, anyway, you wouldn't be expected
to know that Ohio State Patrol officers pulled over carload
of Chilean migrants recently, and one thing led to another,
which led to another, which led to an indictment against
three men accused of pulling that heist, in which they're
alleged to have stolen about three hundred thousand dollars worth

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of jewelry.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
And cash and other items.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
And it didn't help their cause at all that there
were phone images not only of the stuff that was
stolen from the house, but apparently also a picture of
the back of the quarterback's house though, and I think
if I read correctly, those phone images may or may
not have been are alleged to have been erased from

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a phone, which brings up another charge.

Speaker 6 (06:23):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Police also say this should come as no surprise to
anybody that these men were in the country illegally, just
another example of crime committed by people who shouldn't have
been allowed into our country in the first place. Been
talked lately from several media sources that our government intends
to go after Mexican cartels now that are threatening the

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lives of border enforcement people. US intelligence gathering aircraft actually
just very real this week flew down the middle of
the Gulf of California over there between mainland Mexico and
the Baja Peninsula. It's a very in but very legitimate
strip of international water that doesn't doesn't come into Mexican airspace.

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So plane had every right to be there, and I
would be willing to bet good money that that mission
it was on had nothing to do with looking for
good fishing spots or beachhide bars. That's intelligence gathering, hopefully
to slow the cartels down. They've enjoyed four years of
basically unopposed access to our country and carried on sex trafficking,

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drug smuggling, weapons smuggling, people smuggling all sorts of stuff
with very little interference from enforcement agents whose hands were
pretty much tied by President Biden's deliberate in attention to
the border. Just this morning, another story about an eighteen
year old kid who took a pill given to him

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by another teen The pill was laced with fentanyl, and
that eighteen year old is dead. Counting at lessons and
adults from twenty twenty three statistics, total fentanyl related deaths
in this country were more than twenty two thousand, and
that's just about twenty two thousand and two many. As

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far as I'm concerned, I hate that that stuff happens.
I truly truly do, and I hope that we can
shut down some of that import that's killing young people
in this country.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
All Right, we got to take a little break here.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
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Speaker 1 (09:56):
Aging Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Segment two starts now on fifty plus. Thank you for
letting us into your your Friday afternoon, as it were
a pretty good one, shaping up pretty nicely. I might
go out and work on my game this afternoon that
I've got to make that appointment a little later on
and button up this this food idea that we have

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around here. Well today if well, obviously you knew what
day it was, a lot of people in the office
missed out on it being work naked Day.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
I guess you're the only one who recognized it.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Way to blow my spot, Doug, ah bed low my spot.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
Well, you shouldn't see on our clock that it's working
naked day.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Sure you should have let me know earlier that you
wanted to take that bull by the horn and run
with it. I would have gladly let you have it. Yeah,
hopefully only being celebrated by people who work from home
and aren't on video calls. How many times have we
seen since the pandemic when everybody started going to video

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calls instead of in person meetings. There have been innumerable
examples of people forgetting what was behind them in their
home or apartment when they were on video with other people,
and some of those things were quite embarrassing. I'm sure.

(11:45):
Do you ever get caught in anything like that? No, Doug,
nor did I. I make sure of what's in view
and not in view before I sit down to any
video call. Usually I just go into these little phone
rooms that we have here. Little say so you get naked, well, no,
those are glass covered. Very few plays I think, other

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than to shower that that's probably it. Of late. I
never did streak either. Streaking was a big deal when
my peeps and I, my my peers, my audience, and
I were in high school and there were a couple
of people who did it at our school. Actually, and
I'm only wishing it had been other people and not

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them who had done it, because there's it just takes
a certain kind of person to pull it off. Well,
I literally and figuratively, I guess, if you're going to
run across campus in the buck naked stage, Uh, but yeah,
it just it never see seemed to work out very well,
never seemed to work out. Have you ever experienced a streaker?

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I experienced a streak seeing someone. Yeah, just run through
the at college or no high school after down the street.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
After I graduated high school, some friends and I went
to New Orleans for a graduation trip and we're walking
down by Jackson Square and Statue. We saw a parade
of a naked bicyclists.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Oh no, God, I've heard about that. Yeah that. You
can't get that image out of your mind, can you?
I don't want to get it out of my mom. God,
it was formative.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
It was freeing, honestly, not for you, I don't know yet.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
I think it expanded my mind. Have you ridden a
bicycle naked since then? I don't think I've ritten a
bicycle since that. Oh that's a good point I actually have.
I'm gonna get back into cycling, I think because walking,
for me as an exercise, it tends.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
To be a little bit.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
I want to I want to see nature.

Speaker 4 (14:00):
I want to see what's.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Going on around me, and I can't walk fast enough
to get to the next cool thing I can see
in nature. Now, if I'm in the woods and it's
deer season or something like that, I'll walk extremely slowly.
I will because I'm trying to sneak up on very
wary animals, but just walking through a park or something
like that. I love the idea of being on a

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bicycle because I can kind of sneak up on stuff.
Bikes don't make as much noise as an ATV, for example,
And actually bicycles and now electric bicycles are really being
used by outdoors people to get where they want to
get without disturbing game. Nothing drives me crazy more than

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deer leases, on which the people who are going sounds
like stuff i'd talk about tomorrow in fall. But going
to the stands on the deer lease in a big
old pickup truck and they got the bright lights on
and the pickup truck lost its catalytic bird nine years ago,
and it's you might as well just send a marching
band into the woods.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
As to go in that way.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
But they do, and they think it works for them,
and they don't realize how much better it would work
if they were quiet. And I just when I'm in Rome,
I just do as the Romans do, and I'm glad
to have the imitations, so I don't tell people how
to hunt. Oh Mercy, here's a sneeze again, Will air Man.

(15:30):
I got to remember to turn my microphone off because
you couldn't that. No, Will thinks I couldn't help it.
I don't know what that is.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
There's something in.

Speaker 5 (15:40):
The air in here.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
The AC came back on too. I can hear it
every time it comes on. We're gonna have to get Texas.
I AQ in here to it's least.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
Yeah, it is dusty in here.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
I just wipe my fingers across the console. This is
a little it could be cleaned up a bit. Got
a couple of minutes here. Let's go back to the
fun page because this this other show. And by the way,
at the bottom of the hour, I'm gonna be talking
to Anna Dykman from the American Bird Conservancy about a
little piece of Texas that has got a whole lot.

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It's gotten for years, a whole lot of attention from
the entire nation and even the world. People come here
from all over the world to go birding in this place,
and it's not far from here. We'll save your money.
We've got this. Maybe not such a good idea, or
where's security? Where's security?

Speaker 6 (16:36):
Up?

Speaker 2 (16:36):
In Oklahoma, sixteen year old kid runs away from home
and spends several nights sleeping in a Walmart.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
He told police he built a fort in the store
that he's not eight.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
I don't know why he even called it that, but anyway,
he built himself some sort of enclosure and even took
a doll bed in there to sleep on. Apparently the
enclosure was built out of big giant packages of toilet paper,
as if nobody would have noticed that he was there
several days, So I guess he just kind of hid

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himself away. And I don't know whether he was there
by day, maybe just walked around the store during the day,
who knows, But the bottom line was, you know, i'd
bet he ate pretty well. Wouldn't you think that if
you walked into the store the next morning as an
employee or a stoker or something like that, a salesperson,
a helper, one of those people wear a blue vest

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and walking around looking for stuff, if you saw consumed
food wrappers on the floor, wouldn't you maybe check in
with security or no, you wouldn't care.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
No, you just you'd help hide them, wouldn't you.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (17:49):
Probably, I know you so well. I know you so well.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Will let's go to this break a little bit early
and I'll I'll get that time back on the other end, right, well, no,
I know, never mind, I know better. I know you
won't do that. For me. Fishing is something that I
absolutely love. If you love it as much as I do,
or even close to as much, or if you've never

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been before but just kind of have an interest in
it at all, you need to check out the fiftieth
Annual Fishing Show February twelfth through the sixteenth, That is
next Wednesday through Sunday at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
Everything you could imagine for fishing and fishermen, all the
new rods and new reels, the lures, the lines, the everything,

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including a lot of fully rigged boats and even probably
one hundred or so kayaks around there. There are continuous
clinics throughout the show put on by expert fishermen and
both fresh and salt water. And then there are kids
clinics on the weekend with nice little giveaways for them
to bring home and help them get excited about fishing.

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No matter where you are in your life as a fisherman,
you owe it to yourself and anybody who you want
to introduce to that sport to make a trip to
the fiftieth Annual Fishing Show. Check out everything, even the
seminar schedule, which is a great way to kind of
plan your trip around something you want to hear about.
Houston fishingshow dot com, Houston fishingshow dot Com. Now they

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sure don't make them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (19:22):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Bye, Welcome Friday. Third segment of the program starts right now.
Appreciate you giving up a little piece of your day
to Will and me. We'll talk in this segment about
birds and about how a particular piece of Texas has
earned long overdue recognition. Actually it's been recognized for a
long time. Just yet another accolade major bird. And with

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that I will welcome Anna Dytman from the American Bird Conservancy.
Welcome aboard, Anna, Thanks so much for having me today.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Oh it's my pleasure.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
It's not exactly a secret that galveson Island and the
Bolivard Peninsula or premium birding spots, is it.

Speaker 6 (20:16):
Oh? No, lots of birds who have been in the
game for a while know about it.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Definitely cool that Bird City Network recognized Galveson recently naming
it the only city in Texas actually to earn that
high flyer status among bird city cities.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
I guess it is. How exclusive is that club?

Speaker 6 (20:35):
I believe we're the only ones right now. We're at
least the first one to earn that good designation. So,
but we have been a bird City Texas community for
a few years now. So bird City Texas is a
three year certification program and it's run by Audubon Texas
and Texas Parks and Wildlife and so their whole purpose

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is to help people protect birds and their habitats where
we live, work and recreate. So it's a pretty stringent program,
and we're not the only program around. It is the
only one in Texas. But there are currently fifteen bird
City Texas communities. But bird City Texas is part of
the larger bird City network that is run by American

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Bird Conservancy and Environment for the Americas. So within that
network there's over two hundred communities across four countries that
are working on these same types of things that we are.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Good habits in Texas. It's no secret, as you said
to other birders, that Texas is a pretty good place.
We have. I believe we're still number one in number
of species amongst the fifty states. Is that correct?

Speaker 6 (21:44):
Oh, I would have to check. I think it's been
going back. You know, it might be US, it might
be California. I'm not sure which one it is at
the moment.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
That's okay.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
We'll take what we've got, and there certainly are plenty
do you have. Let's talk about Galveston Island and Bolivar specifically.
You have any how many different species of little neotropicals
are going to migrate through there in late winter and
early spring.

Speaker 6 (22:06):
So we get nearly somewhere probably around two billion birds
that will take their journey across the Gulf and pass
through Texas. So they may not all be passing through
Galveston in this area specifically, but they'll pass through Texas
because we sit in right along two flyways, a central
Flyway in Mississippi. So for a lot of birds that

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are going across the Gulf, we're going to be the
first land that they come to and they'll need to
stop refuel rest. So that makes Galveston and Bolivar really
important spot for the birds. And that's one of the
reasons that we think being part of Bird City Texas
program is really important, so we were sure to continue

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to work on making our homes a safe home for
birds as well. So I think Texas might be up
to were between six and seven hundred species in Texas
and maybe in this region we get I could be
wrong in the exact numbers, but I think we're in
the three hundred about three hundred species. That could be

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over three hundred species that could be seen here in
the Dallaston region.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
I remember both those numbers being being very accurate. Actually,
do you mind a quick sidebar, I'll tell you something
I learned about the migration across the Gulf. I was
on a marlin fishing trip down in Eastley mouhare As
many years ago, and a little yellow warbler just fell
into the boat, just fell into the back of the boat,
and it was it just collapsed back there, and it

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slowly regained itself a little bit and was able to
stand up, and I felt sorry for it, so I
tried to feed it a little bit of cantlope and
a little bit of what was the other melon? I
think we had maybe some honeydew, no pineapple. It did
not like the pineapple. It loved the cant lope, and
we took a little bottle cap off a water bottle
and gave it some water, and I actually got one

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of my favorite photographs I've ever gotten, but I'll now
I may share that with you after the show or something.
But anyway, along the short of it is that bird
hopped up and finally got out of the boat and
went maybe twenty yards and then dumped back on to
the water and I thought, oh, no, it's a gone
or it just didn't have enough strength, and we didn't
go another thirty yards, and that thing picked back up

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and just took off. So they really can They can
hit the water. They don't have to go all the way.
And I never really understood that before.

Speaker 6 (24:29):
Yeah, I've heard a lot of stories of birds finding
refuge on you know, big old boats in the Gulf.
They just they have to. They have a long journey
that they're thinking, and it's an exhausting journey that they
feel up for beforehand, but once they get here to Galveston,
they really need to find that shelter, that food, that
water so that they can rest and refuel for the

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rest of their journey. If they're continuing on and I
think one of one of the big things that we
promote here in Galveston through this Bird City Tech, this
program is encouraging residents and visitors to just do a
little bit little things in their everyday life that could
help these birds along their journeys. So something as simple
as turning your lights off at night from eleven PM

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to six am so that they're not attracted to your light,
which does disorients the birds, could help them. And if
it's a safety issue, we don't suggest, you know, turning
off your safety lights, but there are other options, so
you could do something like emotion sensor lights or if
you visit I don't want to get the site wrong,

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it's the Dark Skies International page. They have some options
for shields for your light, so they're bird friendly options.
So as long as the light's shining down and not
up into the sky, that's also helpful. So things like that,
and things like if you have specific windows in your
house or in your business that you've noticed birds hitting,

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there are solutions for that, so we have there are
different types of bird tape you can put on the
outside of your window, and there's specifications on how you
do it that help prevent birds from hitting your windows
because they can't see those windows. So a couple of
little things. Yeah, how we.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
Run out of time?

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Man, What are a couple of good places down in
Galveston to do some birding?

Speaker 6 (26:21):
Oh? Sure, sure, there's a lot of great places. So
if you're with your family, I think a really great
spot to start, and if you're kind of a beginner
would be the Galveston Island State Park. It does cost
to get in, but it's got great trails, it's got bathrooms,
it's got places for you, the rest park, all of
those great things, and they've got a really extensive birding

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list there. You've got the beach runt, your bayside, you've
got some small wooded area, so it's got a little
bit of everything. And if you want to do a
little bit more intense birding, there's a place called Lafite's
Cove on the west end of the island and it
is kind of a it's a great place to go

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during the spring for birding because it's a heavily wooded area.
The only thing we suggest is just being mindful of
the neighbors. It's in the neighborhood, so just keep that
in mind when you're there there are people who live there,
and so you want to be respectful of the birds
and the other people around you. But those are two
really good places to go. And then if you're just

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coming down to the beach, there's i mean amazing shore
birds down here that you can see at the beach
every day. So yeah, there spot.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Gal good plenty of birds all year round, but springtime
is really really special down there, and all you need
to be a birder really is a good book, some
decent binoculars, and a pen to make the check marks
in the book. Right well, well.

Speaker 6 (27:46):
Yeah, and you know, and if you're just starting, you
don't even need all that. You could look out if
you have a you know, a house at the yard,
you can start by just birding your backyard or your
front yard. I find some of my most you know,
amazing birds right in my own yard on the island.
So it's really it's really an easy and fun thing
to get into. And if you're a new birder and

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you want to learn more about birding, photography, a little
bit of everything. There is a festival here every year
called Featherfest and it's coming up in April. It's April
twenty fourth through twenty seven, and so you can go
online and check out what they have to offer. They
have a little bit of everything from beginner birders to

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expert birders, and they.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Have I don't mean to cut you short in it,
but we actually ran out of time about forty seconds ago.
I would like to get you back in about a
month when these birds start popping back through here, if
you don't mind, because I had another half a page
of questions for you. All right, sure of course, thank
you so much, and a ditman. I appreciate that American
bird conservacy. All right, we got to take a little

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break here.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
All the way out, I will tell.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
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people who work at a Late Health. Those are easy

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to take care of and don't take very long. Then
you get into more complex procedures like treating fibroids in women,
treating in large noncancerous prostates and men, there are head
pains that can be alleviated with vascular procedures, and.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
All of that work has done in the office.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
They don't take you to some hospital somewhere where you
might end up coming home with something you didn't have
when you left, and that's always very comforting. Most of
what they do is covered by Medicare and Medicaid as well,
which is very comforting to a lot of people. Regenerative
medicine also available through a late Health and that is
proving incredibly effective against against hard, hard constant pain. Nobody

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Old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Okay, I think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
Here's more with Doug.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
That rejoin means.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
This is segment for the final final segment of the
day and the week, and I, once again I appreciate
you listening. If you think you might be interested in
reaching my audience. By the way, there's no need to
call any eight hundred number. There's no need to call
the switchboard at our office here the main receptionist. Just

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get in touch with me and I will work with
you personally.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
I do that.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
I'm the only person in here who does that. But
I wanted to take care of my people starting many
years ago and was allowed to do so, and I'm
happy to be doing that. I've got two clients I
need to lock down this afternoon as a matter of fact,
and I'm going to get their business started. And I
could do the same for you. If you think you

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would benefit from reaching this audience, just email me. That's
the best way to do it. Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com.
It's that simple, Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot Com. I am
already weary of hearing the left and the Democrats in
office and whatnot all the media puppets keep hollering foul

(31:53):
over efforts underway now to expose just how much money
this country has been wasting for years on programs everywhere
from right under our own noses to around the world.
Investments of US tax dollars and stuff that doesn't benefit
any American anywhere, and in a lot of cases, money

(32:15):
that's been spent to absolutely squash conservative thought and promote
the progressive twists they try to put onto every news story.
It's amazing how we're finding out, just in this first
month of President Trump's second term, with people in place

(32:36):
to go digging, this bunch is being exposed, just red
handed for misuse of tax dollars, billions and billions of dollars,
and they're running scared and rather accept any blame at all.
What they're doing is employing a strategy that used to
work when conservatives were quiet and polite. But it's really
not cutting the mustard.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Now.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
For four years it was, you know, as long as
your point the finger at somebody else, nobody's looking at you. Well,
now we're looking, and the main guy doing the looking
can't be bought because he's already got more money than anybody.
He's exposing to to the harsh light of truth about
what they've been doing, the money they've squandered on nothing

(33:17):
of true value to the United States. The United States
has been kind of a it's been like like overly
giving parents to countries around the world that really didn't
need or want or deserve. Certainly they might have, they

(33:38):
might have wanted our money, but they didn't deserve it. Well,
we just keep shelling it out, and it's that's coming
to an end. And I'm truly, truly glad USA today
we're shift gears who can go to football for a
run out of time. From USA Today comes a story
about the Super Bowl parennially perennially, he said, correctly, one
of the hottest tickets on the planet, except this year

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price is still ridiculous. In my estimation, an average of
three thousand, four hundred and ninety one bucks a seat
to watch the Eagles and Chiefs square off in New
Orleans on Sunday. But that is nowhere near what was
spent just to see this past year's Super Bowl in
Las Vegas. That number was eight thousand, seven hundred and

(34:24):
sixty four dollars. I cannot imagine spending that, And that's
the median price on a ticket to watch a football game.
You still got to get there, you still got to
sleep somewhere for a night or two, you still got
to eat, and you drop eighty seven hundred dollars on
a ticket or two or three. Maybe it's the predictable

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outcome that's driven prices down forty five percent just since
this past Friday. Maybe it's the controversy over a special
treatment of Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs outstanding quarterback, and he
he's one of the best ever to play the game.
But being good isn't supposed to influence the officials, and
I think it has more likely this slump might also

(35:10):
be backlash from the NFL refusing to back away from
DEI initiatives and other divisive programs that are being dismantled
elsewhere in the country among some of the largest companies
and agencies we have, America wants something different, said so
in November. Companies that opt not to change with the times,

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and these are changing times, they're going to feel the
impact of that decision on their bottom lines. I'll be
really curious to see how many people.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
Watch this game. I really will.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
Uh will? I'm coming back to you, my friend. Are
you ready? These are all fresh ones too. A lot
of this okay, maybe not such a good idea. How
are these people allowed into schools and blow it up?

Speaker 6 (36:01):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Not such a good idea? Okay, let's go back up
to the top here. Starbucks Baris is already complaining about
being asked to doodle on customers' cups again, and some
customers are actually misinterpreting the messages on the cups as flirting. No, no,

(36:23):
if your order, I can just tell you if your
order has more than what did you order? Will? It's
got a little kind of paramo macchiato. But I didn't
know face on it. I didn't even know that that
was something that they used to do.

Speaker 4 (36:37):
Yeah, oh yeah, they put your name?

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Where's your name?

Speaker 4 (36:39):
Is your name on it?

Speaker 2 (36:40):
No, I just go through the drive throat.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
Oh okay, so they just did that.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Unsolicited artwork on their of a little tongue hanging out.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
Of mouth and two eyes.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
That's kind of bizarre.

Speaker 4 (36:52):
Will mm mm hmmm.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Anyway, Yeah, no, so the bearis I can assure it
probably wasn't. Well, I can't assure you because I don't
don't know. But I don't think most of them are flirting.
I don't think any message they put on a cup
with a sharpie just because you came in and paid
way too much for a cup of coffee, that's not flirting.
That's that's going for a bigger tip maybe, but that would,

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I think would be the end of it.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
I think it's pretty bold to think that they're just
outright flirting with you.

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (37:23):
Yes, of course they're flirting with I saw I saw
something drawn on my cup, and I was just like, oh,
there's something drawn on my.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Cups and that would be something different too.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
That was literally the only the only thought that crossed
my mind.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
We gotta go, Yeah, I know, I got.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
I can't even tell you about the asteroid that's supposed
to hit the Earth. Now that's it for this week.
You'll have to wait until next week to find out
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