Ep. #58: How to Keep the Spring Vibes Going
May 28, 2026 · 41 min · 10 segments
What do birders do when Spring Migration comes to a close? Find out here!
May 28, 2026 · 41 min · 10 segments
What do birders do when Spring Migration comes to a close? Find out here!
[upbeat music] Caleb, all right, here we are, and we have a pretty serious topic to talk about today because I remember the first year I got really into birding, uh, like 2020, um, I had so much fun in April and May.
Uh, it's when I first started birding with you and Chase and Rick and all these guys, and, uh, just having so much fun.
And then June hits, and I think I didn't touch my binoculars for three weeks, and I was like, "Wow, was that really just a phase? Was that birding thing really just a quick phase?" And of course, then the fall came around, and got invited back out to other things, and the vibes came right back up.
But it is really easy to just kinda let the birding fall to the wayside in the summertime because Mother Nature doesn't make it easy for you.
No, it doesn't, and this is something that folks from, in other areas of the world may not be familiar with.
But at our latitude in, and in our continent, North America here, there are doldrums all summer and there are doldrums all winter.
There's a, there's things around both times, but you gotta put up with the weather, the bugs, the same list of species, kinda, you know, throughout the period.
Uh, the dog days of summer, everything stops by what, 10:00 AM, 11:00? Certainly by 11:00 AM.
Um, and so we definitely get this, like, rabid, uh, oh gosh, what do you wanna call it? Like, the...
We wait through so many months of doldrums for the good stuff, and when it gets here, you just can't escape the feeling that you're gonna miss it, and you don't want it to end.
Like, especially fall migration for me, I, I almost feel, like, sad, like I wanna cry when the, when I see the last bay-breasted or black poll of the fall.
It's like yellow, only yellow rumps and short distance migrants after that, and I'm just like, "Don't leave us.
So I, we, we got in on Saturday from North Carolina, and by the time I got back to North Carolina two weeks ago, it was dead.
[upbeat music] Caleb, all right, here we are, and we have a pretty serious topic to talk about today because I remember the first year I got really into birding, uh, like 2020, um, I had so much fun in April and May.
Uh, it's when I first started birding with you and Chase and Rick and all these guys, and, uh, just having so much fun.
And then June hits, and I think I didn't touch my binoculars for three weeks, and I was like, "Wow, was that really just a phase? Was that birding thing really just a quick phase?" And of course, then the fall came around, and got invited back out to other things, and the vibes came right back up.
But it is really easy to just kinda let the birding fall to the wayside in the summertime because Mother Nature doesn't make it easy for you.
No, it doesn't, and this is something that folks from, in other areas of the world may not be familiar with.
But at our latitude in, and in our continent, North America here, there are doldrums all summer and there are doldrums all winter.
There's a, there's things around both times, but you gotta put up with the weather, the bugs, the same list of species, kinda, you know, throughout the period.
Uh, the dog days of summer, everything stops by what, 10:00 AM, 11:00? Certainly by 11:00 AM.
Um, and so we definitely get this, like, rabid, uh, oh gosh, what do you wanna call it? Like, the...
We wait through so many months of doldrums for the good stuff, and when it gets here, you just can't escape the feeling that you're gonna miss it, and you don't want it to end.
Like, especially fall migration for me, I, I almost feel, like, sad, like I wanna cry when the, when I see the last bay-breasted or black poll of the fall.
It's like yellow, only yellow rumps and short distance migrants after that, and I'm just like, "Don't leave us.
So I, we, we got in on Saturday from North Carolina, and by the time I got back to North Carolina two weeks ago, it was dead.
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