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Jim Wilson

Jim Wilson

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230 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Mooney Goes Wild
Dawn Chorus - RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ lyric fm | Sunday, May 3rd 2026 | 00:00 - 07:00

So if you just keep an eye on the website, we'll give you some details and you can send us WhatsApp recordings.

Mooney Goes Wild
Nature On One: Talking Birds (Bank Holiday Monday, May 4th 2026 at midday)

That's mad.

Mooney Goes Wild
Nature On One: Talking Birds (Bank Holiday Monday, May 4th 2026 at midday)

So it's like as if they've got their own drum kit.

Mooney Goes Wild
Dawn Chorus - RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ lyric fm | Sunday, May 3rd 2026 | 00:00 - 07:00

Zainab will be in studio with me, as will Terry and Richard throughout the night.

Mooney Goes Wild
Nature On One: Talking Birds (Bank Holiday Monday, May 4th 2026 at midday)

And they have a preference for big drums, small drums, whatever.

Mooney Goes Wild
Dawn Chorus - RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ lyric fm | Sunday, May 3rd 2026 | 00:00 - 07:00

We'll also have the company of our colleagues on RT Radio Lyric FM providing wonderful music to accompany the birdsong.

Mooney Goes Wild
Nature On One: Talking Birds (Bank Holiday Monday, May 4th 2026 at midday)

So really, you've had some great surprises.

Mooney Goes Wild
Nature On One: Talking Birds (Bank Holiday Monday, May 4th 2026 at midday)

And to be honest, I wouldn't have known there was a Yellow Broad Warbler here only for the recording.

Mooney Goes Wild
Dawn Chorus - RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ lyric fm | Sunday, May 3rd 2026 | 00:00 - 07:00

And again, we'll be going to the National Broadcasting Service in Finland, YLE.

Mooney Goes Wild
Nature On One: Talking Birds (Bank Holiday Monday, May 4th 2026 at midday)

And the brambling, I haven't seen brambling here in years.

Mooney Goes Wild
Dawn Chorus - RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ lyric fm | Sunday, May 3rd 2026 | 00:00 - 07:00

They'll be in a woodland about 70 kilometres or so from Helsinki and they'll hope to bring us those wonderful bitterns, which we heard calling booming, should I say, last year.

Mooney Goes Wild
Nature On One: Talking Birds (Bank Holiday Monday, May 4th 2026 at midday)

And yet there they were.

Mooney Goes Wild
Dawn Chorus - RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ lyric fm | Sunday, May 3rd 2026 | 00:00 - 07:00

Does the American bittern I meant to ask Jim the other day sound any different?

Mooney Goes Wild
Dawn Chorus - RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ lyric fm | Sunday, May 3rd 2026 | 00:00 - 07:00

It does.

Mooney Goes Wild
Dawn Chorus - RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ lyric fm | Sunday, May 3rd 2026 | 00:00 - 07:00

It's got an American accent.

Mooney Goes Wild
Dawn Chorus - RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ lyric fm | Sunday, May 3rd 2026 | 00:00 - 07:00

Laurel and Hardy, Dance of the Cuckoos was the name of their sea tune.

Mooney Goes Wild
Dawn Chorus - RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ lyric fm | Sunday, May 3rd 2026 | 00:00 - 07:00

That's right.

Mooney Goes Wild
Dawn Chorus - RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ lyric fm | Sunday, May 3rd 2026 | 00:00 - 07:00

As that happens, not the American Bitter and Worse.

Mooney Goes Wild
Dawn Chorus - RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ lyric fm | Sunday, May 3rd 2026 | 00:00 - 07:00

Maybe we'll talk to Helena during the dawn chorus.

Mooney Goes Wild
The Cork Crow Conundrum

Don't get rid of it.