Greensboro Birds

First wood thrush singing in the woods. Heard it early this morning while I let the chickens out into the run. Now it’s officially spring.
First chickadee egg in the nest box (see photo above). Josh discovered it this afternoon, shortly after the chickadee startled me in the midst of a poop walk. (Dog owners will [...]

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Add the blue-gray gnatcatcher to your list of birds that eat pokeweed berries. We’ve got several tall pokeweed plants in the garden and dozens edging the woods, and this past week saw jillions of gnatcatchers jostling for the ripening berries. They don’t seem as adept at recognizing the dark purple ripe berries, though, spending a [...]

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Sometimes I luck out and see a bird that isn’t your typical yard bird. Like the past couple of days, this blue-gray gnatcatcher and a couple others just like it have been perusing the foliage at the edge of the yard. Good thing, too, because I was starting to think I’d have to actually leave [...]

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About half an hour ago, Josh and I were lounging on our patio, which is crowded with the junk from our shed while the dry creek is under construction. I was complaining that I was missing the warblers because (a) we no longer live across from Battleground Park, and (b) we’re in the midst of [...]

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