Greensboro Birds

I’m busy doing stuff that doesn’t include uploading, Photoshopping, FTPing, and, well, blogging. Like being outside. Working outside, yes, but if you’re looking for me, I’m enjoying the world outside my blog. In the meantime, click over to The Awl (an awesome new website by my former virtual coworkers from a now-zombified site) and watch [...]

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So far this spring, the only fledglings I’ve seen are common grackles. This one flew into a maple outside the office a few minutes ago. There were several others, possibly from the same nest, in the pines a few yards away. Several adults were around as well, some dropping into the drainage ditch by the [...]

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Today was a Day of Recovery, as well as Finish the Manuscript Day. Josh’s folks were in town for a whirlwind tour of the northern Piedmont, and I’m pretty wiped out from all that barbecue and rib eating. (I also have a high RDA of downtime, which makes any sort of nonstop activity involving more [...]

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We had a reasonably hard frost this morning, and the birds were out in force. The crow trio showed up like clockwork to pick at the corncobs on the hill. I don’t think they’re even that into the corn per se; I think they just really enjoy the process of picking off the kernels.
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This is the very active Eastern Phoebe in our yard. It spends a lot of time on this branch, then swoops down into the grass or near the brush pile to nab a bug, then returns to this branch.

This is the Gray Squirrel that quickly learned to climb my feeder pole. The next morning, the [...]

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