{"podcast":{"title":"Natural Connections","slug":"natural-connections-90209","podcast_index_feed_id":90209,"rss_url":"https://cablenaturalhistorymuseum.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://cablenaturalhistorymuseum.libsyn.com/website","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/a/4/7/6/a4765a07d301e418/podcast_logo.jpg","author":"Emily Stone","episode_count":99,"summary":"Natural Connections is a weekly newspaper column created by Emily Stone, the Naturalist/Education Director at the Cable Natural History Museum in Cable, Wisconsin. In each episode, Emily reads her fun and informative weekly column about Northwoods Nature.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-11T06:25:04.872355+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209"},"episode":{"title":"437 - House Finches Get a New Coat of Paint","slug":"437-house-finches-get-a-new-coat-of-paint","published_at":"2026-07-30T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209/437-house-finches-get-a-new-coat-of-paint","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209","url":"https://cablenaturalhistorymuseum.libsyn.com/437-house-finches-get-a-new-coat-of-paint","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/cablenaturalhistorymuseum/437_-_House_Finches_Get_a_New_Coat_of_Paint.mp3?dest-id=491045","summary":"Katherine Woolley is about to start her senior year as an environmental education major at Western Colorado University. When Katherine arrived for her second round as a Summer Naturalist Intern at the Museum, she announced that she hit a certain age and suddenly became a birder! This week she shares a neat ornithological observation. \"'Peep peep peep peeeep PEEP PEEEEEP peep peep' I rolled over in my bed and groaned. Spring had come early to Colorado's Gunnison Valley where I attend university. A flash of yellow on my window bird feeder caught my attention. There perched a male house finch sporting banana-colored belly feathers where the red normally is.\"","meta_description":"Katherine Woolley is about to start her senior year as an environmental education major at Western Colorado University. When Katherine arrived for her sec…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":267,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/natural-connections-90209/episodes/437-house-finches-get-a-new-coat-of-paint/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/natural-connections-90209/437-house-finches-get-a-new-coat-of-paint.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}