Greensboro Birds

The day began with me wrenching my back to get a shot of this yellow-rumped warbler in bright breeding plumage. We don’t usually see ‘em this fancy down here, so I was fooled at first into thinking it was some other, more exotic warbler.

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Yesterday afternoon, as the clouds gathered and the humidity increased in advance of a shower, a few yellow-rumped warblers decided to see what they could see down in the grass. For quite a while they made like sparrows and foraged in the yard. What were they finding? Was the warm air bringing some tasty insect [...]

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I’m pretending with this photo that it isn’t currently bucketing down rain and that the skies aren’t gloomy and gray. Shot the other day, this myrtle-form yellow-rumped warbler is one of the myriad birds that are loving the maple sap running from sapsucker wells. There are probably a bunch of bird species on our property [...]

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We’ve got a mighty wind at Chez Lonesome today. I gave up trying to keep the lids on the feeders, which seems a-okay to these American goldfinches. Climb on in there, birds, be my guest.

The trees outside my office window are popular with yellow-rumped warblers. I do worry, however, that this wind is going to [...]

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According to the Piedmont Bird Club’s local species list, this Yellow-rumped Warbler is a winter bird in Greensboro. It’s hard to believe, because there are just so many of them right now! Migration seems to be picking up a big head of steam. It’s common to see half a dozen or so species in one [...]

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