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Eavesdropping on Wild Conversations
Welcome to the Course
Welcome Video (1:03)
Module 1: Discovering What's Possible
Start Here: Discovering What's Possible (16:56)
Module 2: Entering the Conversation of Nature
1. How Animals Serve as Your Best Teachers (27:07)
2. Your own Amazing Senses & How to use Them Better (19:46)
3. Get Out with Intention: Using the Time You Have to Learn from Animals Faster (14:49)
4. Don't Scare the Wildlife: Our Invisible Impacts on Animals (15:04)
Module 3: Meeting the Messengers
1. Finding Your Informants: How to Discover & Learn from Your Animal Teachers (17:10)
2. Getting to Know the Neighbors: Peeling Back the Layers of Understanding Non-Humans (13:32)
3. The Power of the Individual: How Knowing Individual Animals Can Open Up New Doors (25:39)
Module 4: Defining Patterns of Behavior
How to Spot Patterns, Shifts in Behavior & the Importance Watching When Nothing's Happening (31:44)
Module 5: Decoding Meaning
1. The Story Depends on the Teller: Different Individuals can Give us Different Information (20:34)
2. Context if Everything: Finding Meaning based on Where Animals are & What They Do (21:19)
3. Context if Everything: Finding Meaning Based on What Animals Say (43:24)
4. Observing Variations on a Theme to Decode Meaning (35:19)
Module 6: Becoming Part of Nature...Again
Finding More Meaningful Connections in Nature: Choosing our Role & Impact (23:39)
Bonus Material
Bonus 1. Our Preferred Optics & Other Gear (11:44)
Bonus 2. Recording What You Find: Taking Note with Sketching & Journaling (22:41)
Bonus 3. Introduction to Animal Tracking: Another source of Information (26:11)
Bonus 4. Better Wildlife Photography through Animal Language with Brad Orsted (59:18)
Bonus 5. Maximizing Backyard Wildlife Habitat with Dr. Doug Tallamy (78:20)
Q&A Recordings
Q&A April 6, 2021 (77:14)
Q&A April 6, 2021- Follow-up answers/info
Q&A April 20, 2021 (95:44)
Q&A May 6, 2021 (82:22)
Q&A May 19, 2021 (70:50)
Q&A September 12, 2021 (69:28)
Q&A September 26, 2021 (74:58)
Q&A October 10, 2021 (80:19)
Q&A October 24, 2021 (71:31)
Q&A/Live Round of Modules 1&2 May 3, 2022 (72:18)
Q&A/Live Round Modules 3&4 May 10, 2022 (60:57)
Q&A/Live Round Module 5 May 24, 2022 (67:39)
Q&A/Live Round of Module 6 May 31, 2022 (71:07)
Q&A/Live Round - Favorite Books - September 21, 2022 (99:51)
Q&A/Live Round - Learning from Animal Senses, both domestic & wild - October 5, 2022 (63:47)
Q&A/Live Round - Cultivating a Better Sense of your Home Ground - October 19, 2022 (59:28)
Q&A/Live Round - Caring for Home Ground - November 2, 2022 (63:46)
Q&A/Live Round - Challenges to Eavesdropping - March 25, 2023 (69:03)
Q&A/Live Round - Finding Meaning in Presence vs Absence - April 26, 2023 (68:11)
Q&A/Live Round - Bigger Picture Conservation Issues & Unusual Magpie Call - May 24, 2023 (69:11)
Q&A/Live Round - Animals Watching Us - October 4, 2023 (85:11)
Q&A/Live Round - How Animals React to Us & Changing the Dynamic - November 8, 2023 (62:49)
Q&A/Live Round - Coyote Language of danger & use of nouns, verbs, etc by nonhumans - May 9, 2024 (94:24)
Q&A/Live Round - Crows robbing nests, Prairie dogs on road, Currawong foretelling of rain, etc - June 5, 2024 (63:41)
Q&A/Live Round - Animals Watching Us - October 4, 2023
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