Greensboro Birds

The left side is yesterday, before the tree men from Chilton’s removed a bunch of our treacherous pines. The right side is how it looks today—the weather’s less sunny, to be sure—after the guys finished hauling, chipping, raking, and reseeding. I enjoyed watching the process and hope I wasn’t annoying them too much. They didn’t [...]

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So busy at Chez Lonesome, what with Josh having the week off and all, but I did get a few shots of a mixed group of turkey and black vultures over the house. We also managed to wrestle many wheelbarrows full of compost onto the front yard (Josh barrowing, me raking), and seeded it with [...]

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I’m not kidding when I say fall migration is coming. Another bird absent from my summer feeder returned today: This Downy Woodpecker had his fill of sunflower hearts after patiently waiting for a female Cardinal (below) to take off. Other birds are rediscovering the feeder after being absent during breeding season—and bringing their fledglings, too. [...]

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Needing to escape some loud maintenance being done on our building this morning (the young Happy, you might recall, is terrified of loud things), Happy and I spent a couple early-for-us hours walking the Lake Brandt shoreline at Bur-Mil Park.
A male Eastern Bluebird guarded this nestbox by the fishing pond. And worked on being adorable.
This [...]

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This female Downy Woodpecker was very busy finding lunch on this rotting tree branch in the woods yesterday, allowing me to take my time for a few pictures.
I have to admit that when I opened the full-size images in Photoshop, I thought this might be a Hairy Woodpecker. The Downies I see at my feeder [...]

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Before I buckle down today for some serious picture-taking of all the new jewels for the store, I’ve got to show you a list of the birds I saw this morning in the park. For the first time ever, I’m getting excited about winter because there are just more and more birds showing up! Here’s [...]

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It’s chilly in the Piedmont this morning. My 1-Click Weather toolbar says it’s 43 degrees and we have a frost warning. You know what that means: hungry birds!
As you can see, this Downy Woodpecker is looking for high-protein fats to survive the chill. His favorite bugs and grubs are getting harder to find, so it’s [...]

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