Greensboro Birds

Today was a Day of Recovery, as well as Finish the Manuscript Day. Josh’s folks were in town for a whirlwind tour of the northern Piedmont, and I’m pretty wiped out from all that barbecue and rib eating. (I also have a high RDA of downtime, which makes any sort of nonstop activity involving more [...]

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House wrens are dueling outside the window this morning. I can hear their trilly, buzzy song from all sides of the house. I can also hear the first wood thrush of the year working out its double syrinx in the woods right now. Last night, the woods on either side of the house were noisy [...]

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I spent the past week watching an American Robin build this nest in a poison oak-covered tree near my office window. (Fighting the war against poison oak is how I spend my spare time, by the way. By the looks of my skin, I’m losing.) Looks like I’ll have plenty of incentive to keep an [...]

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I don’t report on other bird blogs or bird news very often, but it would be a shame if you didn’t have a chance to see New York Times Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin and his 10-year-old son, Jack, rowing to a mangrove patch in Florida to film a nest of tricolored heron babies on [...]

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See that black and white bit sort of just left of the middle? That’s a bobwhite quail cruising into the woods after poking around near our new creek. Seriously, that is the best and only shot I could get of this guy, who is pretty speedy and zigzaggy in the underbrush. There were at least [...]

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