Greensboro Birds

This morning heralded my old buddy Sam Peabody (aka white-throated sparrow). He scratched around below the feeder while I fed the chickens at sunup. Just now, the brushy area at the edge of the yard yielded—get this:

• A golden-crowned kinglet,
• Yellow-rumped warblers,
• A pine sisken, and
• Two yellow-bellied sapsucker!

All that’s left are the dark-eyed juncos, ruby-crowned kinglets, and cedar waxwings, although waxwings hung around Farris Park all summer, so they’re probably somewhere out there as well.

We had what I guessed was one last wave of monarchs on Monday the 13th, which was a gloriously warm, sunny day. So many monarchs made their way through that I figured the cold weather to come was pushing the late-departers to Mexico. I also predicted that the winter birds would be arriving with the cooler, drizzly weather that followed Monday’s mini-heatwave. Just call me Jean Dixon.