Naturally Adventurous

By Ken Behrens & Charley HesseSociety & Culture Places & Travel

Naturally Adventurous episodes

December 25, 2022 S3E21: Central Peru with Ben Lucking
Charley chats with Ben Lucking about his adventures in the Central Peruvian Andes.
Check out Ben on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/benjaminlucking/
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'Mantaro' thornbird recording courtesy of Andrew Spencer, XC87999. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/87999. License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5
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Naturally Adventurous Podcast
Travel Nature Adventure Birding
50 min
December 18, 2022 S3E20: Sketching adventures with Christine Elder
Charley chats with Christine Elder about some of her nature sketching adventures.
Check out Christine's Website at:
https://christineelder.com/
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Waved Albatross recording courtesy of Scott Olmstead, XC24276. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/24276. License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5
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Naturally Adventurous Podcast
Travel Nature Adventure Birding
1 hr 2 min
December 11, 2022 S3E19: Nature sketching with Christine Elder
Charley chats with Christine Elder about nature sketching and journalling.
Check out Christine's Website at:
https://christineelder.com/
or on Facebook at. https://www.facebook.com/ChristineLElder. If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/naturallyadventurous?fan_landing=true
Plate-billed Mountain-Toucan recording courtesy of Mitch Lysinger, XC260597. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/260597.
License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
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Naturally Adventurous Podcast
Travel Nature Adventure Birding
44 min
December 04, 2022 S3E18: Natural Sound Recording
Charley and Ken chat about field recording of natural sounds, birds in particular. It's an even more esoteric discipline than more typical birding! But it can be highly rewarding. This discussion is a good portal into a variety of related topics.
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Naturally Adventurous Podcast
Travel Nature Adventure Birding
54 min
November 27, 2022 S3E17: Australia highlights with Charley & Jerry Conolly
Charley & Jerry Connolly cover highlights from their recent Australia trip.
The Audubon Shop Birder Supplies, Birdwatching Supplies, Madison, CT
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Marc Anderson, XC524669. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/524669.
License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0
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Naturally Adventurous Podcast
Travel Nature Adventure Birding
44 min
November 20, 2022 S3E16: Australia chat with Charley Hesse & Jerry Connolly
Charley chats with Jerry Connolly from The Audubon Shop in Conneticut, all about Australia.
Check out The Audubon Shop's website at:
The Audubon Shop Birder Supplies, Birdwatching Supplies, Madison, CT
and the amazing Birder tripod at:
Tripods · The Audubon Shop Birder Supplies, Birdwatching Supplies, Madison, CT
Don't forget to ask about the Naturally Adventurous discount!
If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/naturallyadventurous?fan_landing=true
Laughing Kookaburra recording courtesy of Marc Anderson, XC673206. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/673206.
License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0
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Naturally Adventurous Podcast
Travel Nature Adventure Birding
43 min
November 14, 2022 S3E15: Forest Jarvis top Philippine birding adventures
Ken chats with Forest Jarvis, an American who has made his home in the Philippines. For this week's episode, Forest tells five great stories about his adventures in pursuit of birds all over the Philippines. Want to hear about his using a thermal night vision scope to keep tabs on a half-naked drunk guy who was following him as he pursued a rare and spooky-sounding endemic owl? Give this episode a listen!
You can follow Forest's adventures on his blog: https://forest-jarvis.blogspot.com
or on Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/forest.jarvis
Forest is happy to provide advice to birders thinking of visiting the Philippines.
Photo gallery for this episode: https://www.ken-behrens.com/podcast-photo-gallery/naturally-adventurous---season-3---episode-14---photo-gallery
Map for this episode: https://goo.gl/maps/ZeReQt35xpx5khjY9
If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/naturallyadventurous?fan_landing=true
Romblon Hawk-Owl recording courtesy of past Naturally Adventurous interviewee Ross Gallardy, XC403714. Accessible at https://xeno-canto.org/403714.
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
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Naturally Adventurous Podcast
Travel Nature Adventure Birding
1 hr 2 min
November 06, 2022 S3E14: Ken chats with Forest Jarvis about the Philippines
Ken chats with Forest Jarvis, an American who has made his home in the Philippines. This week's episode is something of an introduction to this country that we haven't previously discussed much on the podcast. We wrap up the episode with the first of six tales of Philippine birding adventures, a taste of what's to come next week, in the second part of this interview.
You can follow Forest's adventures on his blog: https://forest-jarvis.blogspot.com
or on Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/forest.jarvis
Forest is happy to provide advice to birders thinking of visiting the Philippines.
Photo gallery for this episode: https://www.ken-behrens.com/podcast-photo-gallery/naturally-adventurous---season-3---episode-14---photo-gallery
Map for this episode: https://goo.gl/maps/ZeReQt35xpx5khjY9
If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/naturallyadventurous?fan_landing=true
Philppine Coucal recording courtesy of Jelle Scharringa, XC605488. Accessible at https://xeno-canto.org/605488.
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
Feel free to contact us at: [email protected] or [email protected]
Naturally Adventurous Podcast
Travel Nature Adventure Birding
53 min
October 30, 2022 S3E13: Julian's Driving Stories
Ken chats with good friend of the podcast Julian Hough, in a followup episode to the Charley-and-Ken driving episode of a few weeks ago. Listening to that episode prompted a bunch of memories in Julian, some good, and some downright terrifying. Some of these stories sounded so good that we had to have him back on the podcast to tell them. Hear about how Julian almost met his end in a driving Molotov cocktail after a 5-day trek across India and Nepal on public transport!

Check out Julian's Substack page:
https://birdingontheedge.substack.com/

If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/naturallyadventurous?fan_landing=true
Indian Peafowl recording courtesy of Peter Boesman, XC311416. Accessible at https://xeno-canto.org/311416.
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0
Feel free to contact us at: [email protected] or [email protected]
Naturally Adventurous Podcast
Travel Nature Adventure Birding

1 hr 4 min
October 23, 2022 S3E12: Italy chat with Charley & Ken
Charley & Ken chat all about Italy while on a drive together in South Africa. Apologies for the poor sound quality of this episode.
If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/naturallyadventurous?fan_landing=true
Italian Sparrow recording courtesy of Filippo Ceccolini, XC732400. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/732400.
License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
Feel free to contact us at: [email protected] or [email protected]
Naturally Adventurous Podcast
Travel Nature Adventure Birding

43 min

About Naturally Adventurous

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Charley Hesse and Ken Behrens have travelled all over the globe, and accumulated a lifetime worth of adventure stories, in pursuit of wild places and wild creatures. Both are lifelong birding and natural history fanatics, and professional guides. Charley was born in the UK, but has spent his life living in Japan, Ecuador, South Africa, and now Thailand. Ken was born in the US, and has lived in South Africa and Madagascar for the last decade plus.