Outdoor Radio

The smallest birds to winter in the New England woods, golden-crowned kinglets are about the size of a thumb and weigh as much as a nickel. They travel as a foraging flock and keep warm at night by cuddling together, creating more volume with less surface area exposed.

The tiny Northern Saw-whet owl is migrating south right now and naturalists are tracking them as they pass through Vermont. On Outdoor Radio this week, we’ll visit a banding station in Montpelier to hear how these elusive birds are captured and banded.

Chipmunks may be Vermont's cutest critter, especially when their fat little cheeks are stuffed with seeds. This month on Outdoor Radio, we find out what they do with those seeds and learn how such a tiny creature survives a cold Vermont winter. Biologists Kent McFarland and Sara Zahendra also explain how climate change is effecting chipmunks. Eastern Chipmunk sightings are listed on iNaturalist Vermont, where you can add your sightings too. The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife offers

Putney Mountain is one of the high points in Vermont where bird watchers gather in early fall to see the migration of raptors and butterflies. Biologist Kent McFarland and Sara Zahendra explain how raptors travel for hundreds of miles using as little energy as possible. HawkCount offers this chart of the most recent raptor counts; the UVM EcoBlog provides more information about raptor migration in Vermont. Outdoor Radio is a monthly feature produced in collaboration with the Vermont Center for

This month on Outdoor Radio, we’ll venture out into a meadow of wild flowers that is literally singing with bumble bees. Biologists Kent McFarland and...