Greensboro Birds

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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My very first season counting birds for Cornell University’s Project FeederWatch was 2002–2003. We lived in a “loft” on North 1st and Kent in the acutely self-aware Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I say “loft” because it was essentially a decrepit shell of space without walls, plus, after moving from the third floor down to the first, a [...]

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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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Welcome back, White-throated Sparrow! After summering in the far northern reaches of the United States and Canada, he’s arrived in the Piedmont with his familiar “OH Sam Peabody Peabody Peabody” refrain. This is the first one to make its way to our yard. I looked out the kitchen window and he was just staring at [...]

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Some time ago I posted the White-throated Sparrow in the “heard but not seen” category. Of course, right after that post I started seeing them everywhere (just not at my feeder). Goofing around with the camera today, testing out the superzoom, I caught this guy in the bushes by the office. (What he was doing [...]

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