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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It was 12 degrees when I woke up this morning. As I type this, the thermometer reads 19. Not funny, South! Lunch and Rita are eating all the high-protein, high-fat treats I can toss their way. Last time I saw them eat so much was Japanese beetle season. Poor chickens.

Yellow-bellied sapsuckers, on the other hand, [...]

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Something you don’t see every day: This dark-eyed junco was just one of several that flew up to the feeder for sunflower seeds during yesterday’s winter storm. Frankly, I’ve never seen a junco at the feeder. They prefer to forage on the ground, but the snow-turned-freezing-rain yesterday must have made the seeds on the ground [...]

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This photo from our friend Dennis makes me all colors of envious. A fabulous male yellow-bellied sapsucker sitting at his feeder eating a sunflower seed—and just when Dennis is there with his camera! My middling scanner didn’t pick up the eponymous yellow bellow as clearly as it shows in the original photo, but no matter—we [...]

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This morning’s coffee heralded the return of the Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, as well as a fantastic visitation by a Black-throated Blue Warbler, and Josh attempting to get those ballsy Red-breasted Nuthatches to eat out of [...]

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