Greensboro Birds

The man who stands on a hill with his mouth open will wait a long time for roast duck to drop in.
You may not have heard the rest of this quote, as it is rarely included in my anthologies:
The man who builds a chicken coop in his backyard will wait a few months for his [...]

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“[Birders] are unusually susceptible to the emotion of awe. When swept away by the appearance of a previously unseen bird, they enter an altered state of grace. This may be seen as nothing more than sentimental nonsense to the secular mind. But we need to remind ourselves that, to the color-blind, a description of red [...]

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Here are the very first birds I spotted on the morning after my whine about not seeing any rose-breasted grosbeaks. Yep, rose-breasted grosbeaks. This is where I whine about not getting a million dollars.

In that same vein, last month I said to Josh, “If you’re going to grow vegetables, I hope you’ll grow stuff we [...]

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Brian from Sanford, NC, (edge of the Piedmont, yo!) sent in these pics of rose-breasted grosbeaks that stopped at his platform feeder last week. These were new birds for Brian, and when he IDed them with his trusty National Geographic field guide, he realized they weren’t locals. Nope, rose-breasted grosbeaks are Northerners, but us Piedmonters [...]

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Happy Earth Day! I have to admit, however, that Earth Day gets my goat. Maybe because it seems to be just a feel-good marketing opportunity for so-called green products (bamboo kitchen utensils! nylon shopping bags! organic mascara!), most of which are horribly overpriced, many of which are snake oil, and in the end don’t make [...]

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