We’re not just urban wildlife podcasters, Tony and Billy are urban bikesplorers! Spoke Magazine and Hidden City set it up, and on Sunday June 19th we linked up with our podcast’s BFF Robin Irizarry of the Tookany/Tacony/Frankford Partnership to explore the Tacony Creek Park (Robin’s stomping grounds) and then some spots in the industrial city-scape on the way to the Delaware River, where we stopped to watch as a bald eagle flew by an osprey nest and then got mobbed by red-tailed hawks.

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Barred owls? Yep. Peregrine falcons? Got them too. Black sparrowhawks? You betcha! Osprey, tawny owls, and great horned owls also come up in the conversation with Rob Bierregaard as we stake out his backyard screech owls and talk about urban birds of prey.

Black Sparrowhawk, Cape Town, South Africa by Gill Cowan

We listen to an interview with Jessleena Suri about Cape Town’s thriving black sparrowhawks. And Tony and Billy drop in on a falcon banding event at Philadelphia’s City Hall – featuring the PA Game Commission’s Art McMorris and local falcon watcher Don Perelman.

We wind up with #wildlifebling from Texas herper Shaun Hayes, who takes us on a trip to the Trinity River Bottomlands in Dallas.

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How do you connect urban kids with the nature next door? We talk to Justin Twist from Environmental Learning for Kids at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge near Denver, Hendra Aquan of Transformasi Hijau (Green Transformation) in Jakarta, and Tykee James of Wild West Philly (our guest host) about giving kids binoculars, fishing rods, whatever it takes to get them out in their local wilds.

Matt from In Defense of Plants drops us some #wildlifebling about the feral orchids of Buffalo, and the Philly crew tracks down long-legged cellar spiders (our synanthropic organism of the episode) in Billy’s basement.

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