Greensboro Birds

Big thanks go out to commenter Dan for solving this mystery from last fall! This fabulously striped caterpillar that Josh, Happy, and I spotted in Farris Park is a brown-hooded owlet moth—a fitting name for a moth caterpillar on a bird blog. You can find more info about them, including photos of the more subdued [...]

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Pine warblers do love the suet and will defend it mightily against interlopers. The warbler returned yesterday afternoon to both the front and backyard suet, alternating between the two every few minutes. Because the American goldfinches are becoming so yellow again, from a distance (and because I lost my glasses for real this time) I [...]

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I buy these giant bags of freezedried mealworms every few months. Originally I bought them to lure in the many bluebirds that live in our hood, but so far the only real takers are the Carolina wrens. (The bluebirds seem content to eat sunflower chips instead; maybe that’ll change come summer.) I fill up the [...]

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In case you haven’t been following this story … I just got an email from David Bonter at Cornell, who confirms that this is indeed an Oregon race dark-eyed junco! They will add my sighting to their list of confirmed rare birds on the Project FeederWatch site. The Oregon juncos reported there so far (in [...]

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Dozens of bright red ladybugs are cavorting in our clover lawn, which I hope is a positive sign for the future of this area. Considering the barren wasteland that was the front yard when we bought this house last fall, it’s fun to watch the clover thriving and spreading on its own. In addition to [...]

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