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Entries Tagged as 'Double-crested Cormorant'

Doubled-crested cormorant evaluates others

April 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment

This double-crested cormorant has totally put dibs on that corner of the swim platform. It’s been sitting in that same spot it seems for weeks now, beak in the air all snooty-like, feet gripping the edges, watching the Canada geese fly back and forth. I can’t help but feel it’s judging the other birds, like [...]

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Tags: Canada Goose · Double-crested Cormorant

Lake Brandt Greenway report

March 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Josh, Happy, and I walked part of the Lake Brandt Greenway before Sunday’s Bristol race. It runs 2.6 miles from the parking area of Guilford Courthouse NMP along the old Atlantic-Yadkin rail corridor. You can reach Bur-Mil Park and other trails from the greenway, which winds through rolling woodlands.
There were lots of turtles lounging in [...]

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Tags: Canada Goose · Double-crested Cormorant · Eastern Phoebe · Local Birding Areas · Painted Turtle

Birds of Country Park and BarkPark

March 13th, 2007 · Comments Off

Continuing yesterday’s birding tale, when Happy and I returned from Bur-Mil, the welding and metal-cutting was still going strong. So we took off across the street, winding through the woods to the pond at Country Park and on to BarkPark for a little off-leash fun.
Yesterday brought two new birds to Greensboro Birds. This Double-crested [...]

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Tags: Double-crested Cormorant · Eastern Bluebird