In today's episode:

• Our Being Your Best tidbit is about judging others
• Our Bird tidbit is about the Chimney Swift
• Our Bonus tidbit is about Bolivia
• Our Big Book Bit is an interview with local author Jane Gardner on her book The Wreck of the Circus Ship Royal Tar

Order the book here: https://janepgardner.com/the-wreck-of-the-circus-ship-royal-tar-tragedy-in-penobscot-bay/

In today's episode:

• Our bonus tidbit is about Boston sports
• Our bird tidbit is about the Peach-faced Lovebird

• Our book tidbit is about The Last Place You Look
• Our big bit on being your best is about finding love

In today's episode:

• Our Bird tidbit is about the Northern Hawk Owl
• Our Book tidbit is on The Gray Man

• Our Being Your Best tidbit is about the magic word "No"
• Our Big Bonus Bit is about Billiards

In today's episode:

• Our Bird tidbit is about the Least Tern

• Our Being Your Best tidbit is about maintaining friendships
• Our Bonus tidbit is about bridge
• Our Big Bit on Books with Amy Conklin and Nancy Werlin is about our long-running book club and the good things we get out of it

In today's episode:

• Our bird tidbit is about the Pileated Woodpecker

• Our book tidbit is on the book Good Enough to Dream, by Roger Kahn
• Our Being Your Best tidbit is about chasing your dreams
• Our Big Bit on Baseball is about being good enough to dream, with Ken Circeo

In today's episode:

• Our Book tidbit is about a book called Traffic, by Tom Vanderbilt.
• Our Being Your Best tidbit is about the magic word "Yes."
• Our Bonus B tidbit is about Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
• Our Big Bit is about a magnificent bird called the Steller's Sea Eagle that appeared in New England.

In today's episode:

Our Book tidbit is a recommendation: Margo's Got Money Troubles, by Rufi Thorpe.

Our Being Your Best tidbit is about letting people be who they are.

Our Bird tidbit is about the Barred Owl.

Our Big Bit is about bourbon, in a telephone interview with Jim's old friend Chip Ruble, Kentucky resident and bourbon aficionado.

In today's episode:

• Our Bird tidbit is about the Barn Swallow.
• Our Bonus B tidbit is about bracketology.
• Our Book tidbit is a recommendation for the book Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke.
• Our Big Bit is about following Duke's advice and thinking in bets.

In today's episode:

• Our Bonus B is a fun fact about Deb's name.
• Our Birding tidbit is about the Woodcock.
• Our Being Your Best tidbit is about articulating who you are.
• Our Big Bit is an interview with award-winning author (and wife) Nancy Werlin, who will tell us about the life of a writer.

Where Bits that Begin with B begins!

Today's tidbits:

Why Broadcasting? - how this began

Books: A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Gentleman_in_Moscow

Being your Best: "You can master your circumstances or be mastered by them"

Today's bit: Why do People Bird?

The hunter instinct and the nemesis bird.

The gatherer instinct and the checklist.

The aesthetic appeal.

The social (and anti-social) possibilities of birding.

References:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine's_gull

• https://nhaudubon.org/lands/sanctuaries/pondicherry-wildlife-sanctuary/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-backed_woodpecker
• (Woodman Pond Birds) https://ebird.org/hotspot/L227544
• (Snow Goose) https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Snow_Goose/id
• (Northern Lapwing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_lapwing
• Merlin app for bird identification, including auditory! https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
• Audubon Society https://www.audubon.org/

Thanks to Melrose Massachusetts Television!!

https://mmtv3.org/