Greensboro Birds

I keep mistyping this bird’s name as Eastern Phoeble, which must indicate my state of being after yesterday’s Gala of Hard Labor. Josh and I worked on our woodland path, dumping a total of 20 heaping wheelbarrows full of pine chips through the woods (Josh fills, I haul and dump). We’ve so far created a [...]

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At the front boundary between our clover lawn and the woods is a low-hanging, scraggly Eastern redbud tree and some ubiquitous green briar (a Smilax variety, for you Latin aficionados). It’s a good spot for hawking birds, like this Eastern phoebe, which made a cameo appearance yesterday amid the winter juncos and white-throated sparrows. It [...]

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This is the very active Eastern Phoebe in our yard. It spends a lot of time on this branch, then swoops down into the grass or near the brush pile to nab a bug, then returns to this branch.

This is the Gray Squirrel that quickly learned to climb my feeder pole. The next morning, the [...]

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Josh, Happy, and I walked part of the Lake Brandt Greenway before Sunday’s Bristol race. It runs 2.6 miles from the parking area of Guilford Courthouse NMP along the old Atlantic-Yadkin rail corridor. You can reach Bur-Mil Park and other trails from the greenway, which winds through rolling woodlands.
There were lots of turtles lounging in [...]

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Lurked around the pond this morning, looking for birds to shoot for the Great Backyard Bird Count photo gallery, and spotted this Eastern Phoebe. You can just make out the hairlike feathers around its nostrils. The Eastern Phoebe is a familiar type of flycatcher in the Eastern U. S., and was the first bird to [...]

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