I have ninety Bible. Good morning, good morning, good morning, Welcome,
welcome, welcome. It's time now for our community connection right here on
K one, the one you trust. It's time to talk a little wild
bro Daniel, how you doing, my man? Doing well? Great to
be here this morning, Well, great to have you in here. We
do this every year, and I call you. This is really grown from
just a kind of a nice little party to a big my got it?
Can we find some more room? Absolutely so, the greatest party ever Hatch.
We've got it happening this year at the Cox Convention Center August twenty fourth,
between five and eight. We're gonna have us and thousands of our friends
coming out to enjoy lots of food, lots of drinks, and help support
conservation topics here in Oklahoma. Tell us a little bit about the Sutton Center,
the Aviation, the Avian Center here in Bartlesville, and we what a
history we've got you, absolutely over forty years of conservation sixcets stories here in
Bartlesville. Started with the bald Eagle project. Eagles, of course, hadn't
been nesting here for some time, and now we've got over three hundred nesting
pairs here in Oklahoma. It's part of everyday life seeing our national symbol.
And it all started at the Sutton Center forty years ago. My goodness sakes,
that is something you just don't take lightly. And of course that got
a lot of a worldwide press too. Oh. Absolutely, this is a
species that again our national symbol on the endangered species list. We almost lost
it, and now you see these guys everywhere. They're no longer on the
endangered species list. We were able to really reinforce the fact that people have
the ability to change the environment that we live in for the better. I
understand that once upon time you've got a little help from another kind of eagle.
Don Henley. Yeah, Don Henley, Absolutely, he was a big
contributor right off the bat. Hey, when eagles of a kind they fly
together, and he did. Great. Now you're gonna be you do a
lot with the edge cation side of it here, and you're going to be
bringing some of the birds to the event, aren't you. Absolutely Yep.
So the education birds, the birds that I normally bring out to classrooms and
events that you got to Guys might have seen me in the community before you
out the County Fair quite a few times This is going to be such an
experience because all these birds all at once are going to come out to the
Cox Convention Center, and you're gonna be able to come out and see and
interact with a lot of these birds. In fact, we're gonna have stations
set up if you want to come in and get a selfie with Artemis our
redtail. Oh my, yep, this is the chance to do it.
You're not gonna have a chance like this. So if you want to come
out and meet some of our education birds and really have a really close encounter
with one of our fabulous birds of prey, come out to Wild Brew.
I'd love to meet you. I'd love to show you my birds. Now,
Artemis has done this the time O're six styles, and so don't worry
about that. He's cool with the selfie, isn't absolutely So it's old hat
for Artemis. She's been doing this for a few years. For me now
this will be her third year on Glove for me, so's she's doing great.
Wow, this is right, this is awesome. Now I understand that
we we have like a big rush of vendors who like to just say get
me it. Yep, that's how that's how good this is for sure.
So with wild Brew, obviously this is the longest running food and craft beer
crawl here in Oklahoma, and so every year we have new vendors that are
signing up and if you're if you are a vendor and you haven't signed up,
it's not too late. We actually take submissions right up until the right
up to the buzzer. If you can get in at least a week before
and say, hey, you know what, I'd love to be represented and
help support these these great causes, get hold of us wildbrew dot org,
the same place you go to buy your tickets, there's a little link for
any of the vendors that want to be part of this. Okay, we
go to the website for the tickets right absolutely so on wildbrew dot org.
That's where you can get your tickets. And this is a variety of options.
If you just want to come and join and make new friends, that's
awesome. If you want to get a whole table worth of people together and
you can bring your all your friends. If you want to support us in
any way, go to that website and come and see what's being done.
We'd love to have you. That is so cool. That is so cool,
And every years it's kind of like the big thing that time of year,
and it's one of those things where folks have got a clambering to get
their tickets too. So don't wait till the last moment, I guess is
what we're saying here. We don't want anybody to be left behind. Yep.
Absolutely, We've had some years where it came down to the wire and
we were like, I don't think we can fit anybody else in here.
Wid Marshall may have something to tell them about this. So if you plan
on coming, if you plan on bringing your friends, we're just meeting people
up there is imperative to go ahead and get your tickets early instead of waiting
till the door. Again, you've got a couple of options. We've got
our standard fair If you want to come in five to eight, that's three
hours of all you can eat, all you can drink, you come out
and enjoy the fun, and that's three hours. If you want to be
there early and get that early early time before everybody else comes in, get
the early samples, come and meet me before everything gets a little crazy.
You can get patron tickets on that same website. Nice, and that Patroon
ticket gets you in an hour earlier, which is really nice. And there's
a special area that only you can visit that's got some very premium offerings.
Let me say, okay, well, you'll have to go on the website
to know more about that. We're just gonna hang that out there for them.
Okay, absolutely, Okay. Now we brought the eagles back at the
Sutain Avian Research Center. What are the ongoing conservation projects going on? Absolutely
so, We've got a number of ongoing conservation projects, two of which are
two of the most endangered birds in North America. So we've got the masked
bob white quail. If you're familiar with the northern bob white quails, I'm
not going to imitate the sound, but y'all can look it up. It's
the sounds like they're saying bob white Yep. Absolutely so very similar birds.
But these are a desert species. And this is a bird that literally went
almost the almost a decade, the better part of a decade without being seen
in the wild. Wow. And now we're here, we are bringing them
back from the brink of extinction in Bartlesville. Wow. That's cool. Yep.
The other bird, the Atwater's prairie chicken Texas Louisiana native. Don't hold
that against them, but very similar to the prairie chickens we have up here.
We learn a lot from bringing these species back and bringing them back to
the habitat that they used to occupy. What makes a prairie chicken a prairie
chicken? Yeah, absolutely so uh not actually a chicken, believe it or
not. Oh yeah, I'm there. But but you see these prairie chickens
if you've ever seen if you haven't seen it, I'm gonna really encourage you
to go look these guys up or come out to wild Brew because we've got
some of the aavy cultures that want to show you. We got videos and
we want to show you and what these guys look like, what they do,
and if if you are inclined to have these in our environment, to
have them here in Oklahoma in our prairies, in our uh both our tall
and short grass prairies up around. I mean it's not a two hour drive
from here to get to areas where these birds used to be very prolific.
Yeah, and to have these guys back in our vin is something that we
can do. It's something that we can have an impact. Well, this
is great. See, folks, you get a chance to learn something and
you have a good time at the same time, and you're saying, well,
dog got and I learned something. How do you like that? And
you know, yeah, and I did it while I was having fun.
Dog gone. Well that's what it's all about. Its having fun, learning
and also contributing to a great cause, which is the Avian Research Center right
here that's bringing these species back from the brink of extinction and having them proliferate.
Absolutely, So come out to Wildberer that's Wildbreer dot org. Get those
tickets, drink a beer, save a bird. I like that. You
must have t shirts that say that come out, Come out and get a
T shirt. We got those for you. If you're really located here in
town. So here in town we've got we've got two offices, but right
around Circle Mountain is our main office. If you're interested in learning more,
let's say, you can go to either Sutton Center dot org contact us link
there. We're not open to the public on a regular daily basis, but
if you're in didn't learning more or scheduling a tour for a group. I've
got my education birds that come out and do educational tours and shows for your
classrooms. So if you'd like to have me come out. We really want
to be part of your community, and so we want you to contact us
and be part of this conservation success story that we can all be part of.
Now. Remember, if you can hear our voice, he can make
a trip out to your school. Absolutely, So just you know, just
inquire and give him plenty of notice and we'll get those birds on the roll.
Absolutely. My goodness sakes, drink a beer, sa, drink a
beer, saver a bear. You can't get better, net, No,
you can't. I want to thank you for being here. Is there anything
else I may advissed? No, that's it. I can't reiterate this enough.
If you haven't already gotten your tickets, wildbrew dot org that's where you
can get those tickets. Get them sooner than later, and we look forward
to seeing you all right, Thank you very much. Daniel's been with us
here and he is with the folks from Sutton Avian Research Center right here in
Bartles But Wild Brew you know what to do, all right. We'll be
back with more