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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		American Goldfinches Are Just Finishing Their Nesting Season
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:04
	Publish Date:		2019-08-12 05:00:00
	Description:		While we are accustomed to birds nesting in spring, we have one bird species here that is just finishing their nesting season. The American Goldfinch is the subject of this week’s Wildlife Matters. Recently my wife and I were driving one of the beat-up roads out by the Rhinelander airport, and a brief golden flash caught my eye. “Look! My first goldfinch sighting of the year” I exclaimed. It was a brilliantly colored male, but he disappeared in an instant amongst the young aspen trees outside the fence. My wife didn’t see him; I started telling her a little bit about these birds, to which she replied it might make a good topic for Wildlife Matters. Now I tend to write about birds a lot, and I don’t want to get tangled up with any other feature contributors whose sole focus is birds and stuff related to birds. At the same time, there is so much about birds and our relationships to them, it is to me as endless a conversation topic as the weather or cooking might be to others. When I
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