Greensboro Birds

It’s Murphy’s Law of birding: Go out on a gorgeous spring day without your camera and you’ll have one helluva fabulous sighting. Today, the young Happy and I were tooling past the fenced-in pond by the Natural History Museum. Not 10 feet above us, perched on the wooden fence in clear, golden sunshine was the [...]

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The young Happy and I went strolling in today’s warm, sunny weather. We needed a moment away from the noisy power-washing taking place outside our building, and listening to spring-singing birdies was a nice respite. Barely five minutes into our trip, Happy and I spotted this Red-shouldered Hawk step off a branch and swoop through [...]

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This Great Blue Heron was visiting the pond at Lincoln Green, but I was lucky enough to see GBHerons today at both LG and the pond at Country Park. The young Happy is afraid of geese and ducks (among numerous other odd things), so we did a little immersion therapy at Country Park. We sat [...]

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You might wonder if the Greensboro Life List that runs on the right side of this site contains all the birds I’ve seen since moving here. In short, no. Rather, with a few exceptions, it lists the birds I’ve been able to photograph to date. Today, I get to add the Brown Thrasher to the [...]

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As an apartment dweller, I’ve come to accept that I can’t attract the great numbers and variety of birds to my balcony feeders that people with yards of their own can. What’s interesting, however, is that apartment-dwelling birders within the same complex attract different kinds of birds.
One bird I frequently see in another section of [...]

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