This episode of Big Blend Radio’s Nature Connection show focuses on the Yuma Bird, Nature & History Festival held annually in January, in Yuma, Arizona, known as the “Gateway to the Great Southwest.” Featured guests are travel writer Linda Kissam “Food, Wine & Shopping Diva,” festival bird watching guide Daniel Steward who is a Wildlife Biologist for the US Army Yuma Proving Ground, and festival co-organizer Yvonne Peach who owns the Coronado Motor Hotel and Yuma Landing Bar & Grill, and runs the Historical Society Museum of Aviation & Tourism. Read Linda's article about the festival "Be Inpsired at the River's Edge".

Episode was recorded pre-Covid-19 while hosts Nancy J. Reid & Lisa D. Smith, publishers of Big Blend Magazines, were staying at the historic Homestead Inn in Twentynine Palms, California. Featured music is “Ocotillo” by Michael and Spider.