Let’s Make Birdwatching Cool - With Georgia Barker

About this episode

In this episode, Chris Watson revisits a conversation with Georgia Barker about her mission to make birdwatching cool again.

Support the Show: Join the new Patreon for exclusive after-shows, extended newsrooms, immersive short stories and meetups at adventurediaries.com/go In this highlights episode, we revisit an inspiring conversation with Georgia Barker, who is on a mission to make birdwatching cool again. Georgia takes us back to her unconventional childhood growing up on a goat farm in Essex, complete with goat funerals and walking them on leads. She shares the pivotal moment she realized a standard office job...

People in this episode

Host: Chris Watson

Guest: Georgia Barker

Topics covered

• birdwatching
• childhood
• adventure
• nature
• inspiration

Keywords

• birdwatching
• Georgia Barker
• adventure
• Essex
• nature
• inspiration
• childhood

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Essex

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