Greensboro Birds

While we’re busy correcting things, let’s talk about this recent news story from New Jersey. State police identified the bird that crashed into a minivan on Route 80 near Parsippany as a turkey vulture. Silly troopers. Smartypants birders like us know this is clearly a wild turkey (probably a hen), not a turkey vulture. The [...]

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For the record: Things that are on sale are for sale. You sell things that are on sale or that are for sale.
We do not sale things, put things up for sell, or put them on sell. Nay! We sell things, put things up for sale, or put things on sale.
The linguistic epidemic of this [...]

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The siege began one year ago today: March 26, 2008. The day I lost my marbles and invited a stray dog into the yard. The day Tito fooled me into thinking he was a well-behaved little man. I’ve learned something since that day, namely never to trust a fluffy dog just because he’s fluffy and [...]

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Tootie surprised us today by laying her first egg! I found a pinky beige two-ouncer in the nestbox this morning alongside Lunch’s blue egg. We weren’t expecting it at all. My money had been on her waiting till May, when she’ll be about the same age that Lunch was when she first laid (37 weeks). [...]

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Dear Brown Thrasher: If you could be any bird beside yourself, which bird would you be?
Thrasher: Without question, hands down, totally a fox sparrow. It’s bigger than the other sparrows, it looks a lot like me with its streaky breast, ladies and gents look alike (like us thrashers), and it has that cool two-hop move [...]

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