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 [...]

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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 coming [...]

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