Greensboro Birds

Looking for a free online photo editor? I’m intrigued by the rise of the netbook (Sellout.Woot’s offering an older model today for $160) and read Clive Thompson’s history of these wee machines on Wired.com today. He mentions losing his install disk for Photoshop and subsequently discovering online photo editor FotoFlexer.com. I thought I’d give it [...]

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Short answer: Lots of them, and, no, you shouldn’t! There’s a lot of recent chatter about pokeweed on both the Carolinas birding list and the bluebird listserv. Probably because the berries and plant stalks are turning vivid purple and fuchsia right about now. Birders are asking which birds, if any, eat the juicy berries of [...]

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A robin has been sitting on a clutch of eggs high atop a broken maple that had sprouted new branches in a perfect nest-holding configuration. Unfortunately for the robin, black rat snakes are fantastic tree climbers, and this one easily found its way into her nest yesterday afternoon. What a scene it was!

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The dry creek is getting more interesting. Or “junked up,” as Forrest says. We’ve built two simple bridges over it, with one more on our to-do list, and we’ve planted a ton of perennials, shrubs, knockout roses, our apple and fig trees, some other stuff, and a few annuals for good measure. The yarrow garden [...]

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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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