Greensboro Birds

Happy Thanksgiving, fellow birders! This year Josh and I opted out of turkey et al., and opted into an Indian theme. No, not buffalo stew with fry bread crust (although that might be next year’s entree!), but curried stuff—you know, India Indian. We lived for a while in Sunnyside, Queens, where there are lots of [...]

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We have enough stuff, but we can never know enough stuff. Especially when it comes to birds. Check out the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s holiday store.

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People are so resourceful—and sometimes incidentally patriotic—in times of crisis. Yesterday, for instance, a Good Samaritan who was shopping at Harris Teeter in Fuquay-Varina, NC, attempted to stop a carjacker by clocking him over the head with his frozen Thanksgiving turkey, succeeding in both doing a good deed and demonstrating the Second Amendment. The suspect [...]

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Keep an eye on your bank statements, people. Just spotted a mysterious 23-cent withdrawal by “Adele Services” from our checking account. Did a quick Google on the company and its associated 800-number and turned up a bunch of people getting dinged just this week from this scam artist—most for small amounts, but some upwards of [...]

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Cops in Gibsonville may soon be adding Pest Control Officer to their titles if the chief of police has his way. Seriously, at an official meeting with the Board of Aldermen, the chief stated his intention to ask the state for a permit to allow his officers to shoot delinquent squirrels in town limits. Apparently [...]

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