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Minnesota Now with Cathy Wurzer
Cathy Wurzer and Ellen Finn

The sounds of birding at St. Paul's Wakan Tipi

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A veery rests in a tree Wednesday, August 12, 2020 on forest land near Floodwood, Minn.
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How about a moment of calm for your Wednesday? Earlier this season, producer Ellen Finn went bird watching with leaders from the Urban Bird Collective and the Lower Phalen Creek Project at Wakan Tipi in east St Paul. You can hear leader Ari Kim along with bird song and the sounds of the city.

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SPEAKER 1: How about a moment of calm for your Wednesday? Earlier this season, producer Ellen Finn went birdwatching with leaders from the Urban Bird Collective and the Lower Phalen Creek Project at Wakan Tipi in East St. Paul. You can hear leader Ari Kim, along with birdsong and the sounds of the city.

SPEAKER 2: That's another goldfinch up high. It might be a female.

SPEAKER 3: Oh.

SPEAKER 4: The yellow one there with the black?

SPEAKER 3: That's the goldfinch?

SPEAKER 4: Yep.

SPEAKER 5: Holy heck.

SPEAKER 2: So they're here year-round.

SPEAKER 3: Oh, love the goldfinch.

SPEAKER 2: But they get real bright in the breeding season.

SPEAKER 3: Wow! That thing is, I mean-- whoo!

SPEAKER 2: Yeah.

SPEAKER 3: Shining bright.

SPEAKER 4: Orange beak.

SPEAKER 3: Mmm, cute. The song of the goldfinch.

SPEAKER 4: These are cool.

[VOCALIZING]

SPEAKER 2: You'll hear that a lot. I wonder if we're pissing him off.

SPEAKER 5: Where's that coming from?

SPEAKER 4: With them.

SPEAKER 5: Oh, those three.

SPEAKER 2: Oh, I don't hear that one very often. Cardinals, you have robins, you have the ducks, some of the ducks. You have eagles. Turkey vultures are migrating birds so they'll leave in the fall.

SPEAKER 4: I love when you can see the redwing blackbirds' orange and red on the wings in the sky. It's so bright right now.

SPEAKER 2: I find a lot of birds, and that's the only way that I probably am going to learn more-- because I'm still learning too-- is that I find a lot of birds, and I sometimes don't know what they are. But I could spot them pretty quickly.

SPEAKER 1: I couldn't love that any more than I do. That's a little audio postcard of the Urban Bird Collective in the Lower Phalen Creek Project birding at Wakan Tipi in East St. Paul. The group leads birding trips at Wakan Tipi monthly until December, with a focus on LGBTQ and BIPOC birders.

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