Greensboro Birds

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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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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