Read This: Outside takes Andy Samberg birding, and he’s into it

Saturday Night Live veteran Andy Samberg has been doing a lot of press lately for Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, his new film with the comedy-music team The Lonely Island. So when Outside contacted him with an offer to do some bird-watching at California’s Franklin Canyon Park, he had only two words: “Fuck yeah.” Writer Michael Roberts has a report on how the day went. As it turns out, birds and birding have played a not insignificant role in Samberg’s life. As Roberts reports, the comedian’s mother ran a preschool out of the Samberg home called the Hummingbird School, named for all the hummingbirds that congregated in the backyard. Samberg’s wife, singer-songwriter and harpist Joanna Newsom, grew up birding in the Sierra Nevadas with her folks. As described in the article, however, the bird-watching expedition turns out to be sort of a bust. The cast and crew of Bones had taken over a large part of the park that day to film some scenes for an upcoming episode. Making lemonade out of the lemons that life gives them, Samberg and Roberts start watching the Bones people instead and speculate about the episode.