Greensboro Birds

Just when I thought monarch migration was over, yesterday I watched three of them waft their way westward over the yard. They were gliding low and slow, probably because the nights are getting chilly and these guys are sluggish when cool. Despite the drought (see the Stats for the last rain date), the coneflowers are [...]

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For the past two days we’ve been having a fence installed around our backyard. The front and back are attractive wood, and the looooong sides are this black PVC-coated wire. It was tough to get a fencer or landscaper to work with us on this, because they apparently deem wire fencing beneath them and their [...]

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It’s been quiet here, birdwise, for a while. They’ve been hard at the business of sitting on and hatching eggs, not to mention keeping quiet so predators like crows, hawks, and owls don’t snatch away the young. But it seems that, with the exception of the late-breeding American Goldfinches, we’re seeing the last batch of [...]

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This is one of those “trust me on this” pictures. Josh and I went out in the 90+ degree heat looking for stuff to shoot today. We were watching a pair of Eastern Towhees hopping around when this little fledgling popped out of their nest area at the base of a tulip tree. The fledgling [...]

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Needing to escape some loud maintenance being done on our building this morning (the young Happy, you might recall, is terrified of loud things), Happy and I spent a couple early-for-us hours walking the Lake Brandt shoreline at Bur-Mil Park.
A male Eastern Bluebird guarded this nestbox by the fishing pond. And worked on being adorable.
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Just a few early evening spring scenes around Lincoln Green.

An American Robin takes flight from an overhead branch. I’m practicing shooting birds in flight, with so-so results. I like seeing its feet hanging beneath its tummy in this one.

This male Eastern Towhee was alternating verses of his “drink your tee” song with me. Two of [...]

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Josh called this morning asking for a bird identification—about the size of a titmouse, kind of brownish with yellow on the tail and red-tipped wings, and a mask like a cardinal. Pretty thorough description, right? “Where’d you see this bird?” I ask. “Oh, it’s dead, so I’m just looking at it here.” I convince him [...]

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At the bottom of our stairs is a small area covered with leaf litter and edged by brush and a few tall trees. It’s a morning gathering point for quite a few birds, including this Eastern Towhee male. I frequently see Towhees in the hedges, but they’re surprising difficult to capture on camera because Towhees [...]

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