Greensboro Birds

Here are the very first birds I spotted on the morning after my whine about not seeing any rose-breasted grosbeaks. Yep, rose-breasted grosbeaks. This is where I whine about not getting a million dollars.

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Brian from Sanford, NC, (edge of the Piedmont, yo!) sent in these pics of rose-breasted grosbeaks that stopped at his platform feeder last week. These were new birds for Brian, and when he IDed them with his trusty National Geographic field guide, he realized they weren’t locals. Nope, rose-breasted grosbeaks are Northerners, but us Piedmonters [...]

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Donna from Timberlake, NC, got a fantastic up-close look at a migrating male rose-breasted grosbeak on May 9. Well, technically her husband got this shot, but they’ve both seen RBGs at their place this spring. (Read Donna’s account of this sighting.) Grosbeak sightings don’t get much better than this, do they? Also, fantastic lawn, Donna!
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GBirds reader Linda nabbed these great shots of a male rose-breasted grosbeak at her feeder near Guilford College in Greensboro. These birds make their way through our area in the fall and spring. They winter in southern Mexico, Central American, northern South America, and the Caribbean. Summer finds them in the higher elevations of the [...]

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I must be the last birder in North Carolina to see a migrating rose-breasted grosbeak this spring. David saw one nearly a week ago, and he’s only maybe 30 miles south of me! What took so long? Anyway, I went into the woods this morning to see who’s winning the poison oak war (still not [...]

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