Greensboro Birds

Josh and I saw a small flock of cedar waxwings this morning at Farris Park. Rockingham County is on the margin of year-round waxwings, but this is the first I’ve seen them in July. No photos, but worth mentioning nonetheless.

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How many pictures does one have to take to get a mostly in focus Cedar Waxwing? One hundred thirty-two. If you’re me, that is. Waxwings have a knack of flying off just as I hit the shutter. I have a lot of awesome shots of empty branches and blurry bird legs. I think that sound [...]

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So busy these days, so few posts, even fewer photos. In a nutshell:

We returned Dinner to the farm where he was hatched and brought home an older Welsummer hen, Rita, that matches our remaining red hen, Lunch. (Dinner’s extraordinarily LOUD cockadoodledooing a few mornings ago confirmed his true gender. He couldn’t fight nature after all.) [...]

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First, the weird part:

What? A dark-eyed junco eating suet? Is this a sign of global warming? Juncos were at the feeder the other day, and now this. I’ve got Al Gore on hold while I hammer out this post.

Look once, and there’s nothing. Look again, and there are 15 cedar waxwings right outside the office [...]

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This morning’s coffee heralded the return of the Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, as well as a fantastic visitation by a Black-throated Blue Warbler, and Josh attempting to get those ballsy Red-breasted Nuthatches to eat out of [...]

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