Greensboro Birds

Summer is cranked up to a crazy pitch in our garden. Everything is blooming, birds are nearly finished fledging, and butterflies are flapping around everywhere we look. This is a tiny sunflower that found itself a spot to take root next to the dry creek. Phaon crescents are almost always on it, as are tiny [...]

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Few flowers in our garden attract more attention than these coneflowers. As soon as the morning dew dries, the big blooms see a constant stream of butterflies, bees, beetles, and even the occasional curious hummingbird. Eastern tiger swallowtails in particular enjoy them, as do the bumblebees from the nearby colony at the edge of the [...]

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Josh took the reins of the camera while we planted this Dark Knight butterfly bush, which as you can see is doing credit to its name. This butterfly is so tattered that I’m not sure what kind it is—common buckeye? red admiral? I really need a good butterfly book to go with the excellent caterpillar [...]

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