Greensboro Birds

This morning heralded my old buddy Sam Peabody (aka white-throated sparrow). He scratched around below the feeder while I fed the chickens at sunup. Just now, the brushy area at the edge of the yard yielded—get this:

A golden-crowned kinglet,
Yellow-rumped warblers,
A pine sisken, and
Two yellow-bellied sapsucker!

All that’s left are the dark-eyed juncos, ruby-crowned kinglets, and cedar [...]

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Back to the birds at hand. Still waiting for the juncos to arrive, but we’ve got white-throated sparrows to spare. In fact, the underbrush was swarming with white-throats during this evening’s dog promenade. Here’s the little Sam Peabody that inspired Josh’s latest bird illo. We’ve had three frosty mornings, so apparently summer is not [...]

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It’s official: Greensboro Birds has jumped aboard the Sam Peabody bandwagon. We’re flexing our mighty muscles of endorsement in support of Sam Peabody, founder and sole representative of the White-throated Sparrow Party. It’s high time we elect a candidate with dual citizenship (in Sam’s case, U.S. and Canada), who understands both foreign policy and national [...]

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See that black and white bit sort of just left of the middle? That’s a bobwhite quail cruising into the woods after poking around near our new creek. Seriously, that is the best and only shot I could get of this guy, who is pretty speedy and zigzaggy in the underbrush. There were at least [...]

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Brush piles are big draws for birds, especially white-throated sparrows. Josh and I are spending our free time removing thorny smilax and pernicious poison ivy vines (yep, PI also grows in vine form!) and fallen tree debris from the wooded area of our property. Until we get a chipper, the pile just keeps growing, which [...]

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