Greensboro Birds

This is what greeted me from outside my office window early this morning: the female white-tail deer and her two young charges that use our yard and (soon-to-be-our) woods as a thoroughfare. Our friend Ben gave us a persimmon-flavored deer lick as a housewarming gift, which is affixed to a pine at the property perimeter. [...]

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Josh, aka HarmoniousJosh, is an artist of tiny proportions. That is, most of his work is 2.5×3.5 inches. He sells it on eBay and recently in a group art show in downtown Greensboro. I’m sure you aren’t surprised that he has done several little portraits of birds that have visited our feeders. This week he’s [...]

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This story is making the bird rounds. Apparently nuthatches understand the various alarm calls of chickadees. But what I find more interesting is the bit at the end. There are folks who believe the chickadee is a fair player, perhaps because of its tendency to hang out in mixed company. Not always, according to Cornell’s [...]

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Who visited our feeders this weekend? (Totals are most viewed at one time, not cumulative.)

Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 1
Carolina Chickadee 3
Tufted Titmouse 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 2 (pictured at top right)
Brown-headed Nuthatch 3
Carolina Wren 2
Song Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 3
House Finch 3 (0 with eye disease)

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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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Lack of a neck make them even cuter.
Long, pointy beak makes them look smart and pretentious.
They mutter like quiet geese.
Huge feet in proportion to their bodies—always cute.
They look like 1930s film stars with slicked-back Copacabana-ready hairdos and tuxes.

White-breasted Nuthatch photo from istockphoto.com

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Lo and behold! A new bird today, which means another blurry bird pic for you! This dude moves fast, and I took a lot of no-bird pics just to get these. The White-Breasted Nuthatch is proof that we live near trees. They’re usually spotted creeping down tree trunks, often head-first, looking for bugs and seeds.
Nuthatches [...]

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