Greensboro Birds

Dark-eyed juncos are arriving. The low-30s temps last night pushed more our way, along with a ton of white-throated sparrows. I spent the afternoon recovering from a few weeks of intense workload by stuffing a bunch of perennials and pyracanthas in the ground and snapping relatively close-up shots of juncos, using the new foliage as [...]

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After a few rainy days, the birds are back in force at the bath. This female cardinal splashed out nearly all the water during her vigorous ablutions. But it’s very true that for birds, the sight and sound of splashing water is like candy to a bird blogger. This poor girl just couldn’t get any [...]

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Hmmm, is this a Purple Finch and not a House Finch? Bad photo taken from my desk this morning, I know. Two of these birds landed on the front-yard feeder and then in a nearby tree. It was very, very raspberry colored, even on its head and back, and it has no brown streaking on [...]

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Recovering from two solid days of racing—truck race in Martinsville on Saturday afternoon, local dirt track Saturday night, then back to Martinsville yesterday for the NASCAR Cup race. It took us exactly 30 minutes from house to racetrack seats via our super-top-secret route that you will never extract from me. Josh and I were surprised [...]

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Upon opening the blinds in my office this morning, I was treated to the sight of this female Northern Flicker foraging in the front yard. (That’s a lot of f-words.) First she was picking at stuff in the street, then she moved onto our dead grass and clay, where she spent a fair amount of [...]

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