Greensboro Birds

Today was a Day of Recovery, as well as Finish the Manuscript Day. Josh’s folks were in town for a whirlwind tour of the northern Piedmont, and I’m pretty wiped out from all that barbecue and rib eating. (I also have a high RDA of downtime, which makes any sort of nonstop activity involving more [...]

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At last! It’s the first day of spring. Is the first day of any other season looked forward to with the kind of desperate anticipation and crazy glee as spring? I doubt it. Especially for those of us who grew up in the path of the arctic jet stream, spring is when you can finally [...]

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Eastern bluebirds are busy staking claim to the nest box. Yesterday they faced brief competition from a nest-shopping house finch, but the male bluebird was having none of it. He shooed it away and resumed calling to a nearby female bluebird, trying to convince her that this is a suitable home. They also have to [...]

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An Eastern Bluebird pair has been in and out of the nest box all week. Between forays into the box, the birds sit on the fence and hawk bugs and worms in the yards on either side. When I first started looking into nest boxes, the sites I visited made it seem like such a [...]

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So, the cliché is true: Birds really do eat worms. Sitting on the stoop, watching a swarm of about 50 black and turkey vultures swooping overhead in yesterday’s tremendous wind, I notice this Eastern bluebird drop down onto the driveway. Zooming in with the camera (ugh, I lost my glasses a couple weeks ago, and [...]

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Eastern Bluebirds are the upside of rainy days. As I type this, half of dozen or so are finding lunch in the front yard. The rain seems to be forcing delicious prey out into the open, ripe for the hawking by the bluebirds. Cheery!

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The good and wise people at Pantone, maker of those addictively inspirational Pantone color chips and forecaster of the hues of the stuff we buy, have declared Blue Iris, No. 18-3943, to be the perfect color to represent 2008. Both the Eastern bluebirds and I must applaud and agree, as we each share part [...]

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One of the many Eastern bluebirds that frequent the power line outside our house. I imagine he’s daydreaming about snorkeling off the shore of some small island in the Caribbean. Or concocting his next novel.

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