Greensboro Birds

This Gray Catbird sounds more irritated than ever now that it’s lost its tail. All the birds in the hood look like heck now that they’re in the throes of molting. I can’t recall seeing as many bald and generally ratty-looking birds as I see this summer. Everyone from the crows to the chickadees have [...]

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Gray Catbirds are sassy—and a little rough on the ears. This one was shouting down the leafblower today. Pretend you’re me, sitting at my desk and taking videos of birds outside the window instead of working. Distracting, isn’t it?
Gray Catbird vs. Leafblower

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That’s a Gray Catbird up there, doing a little feather-ruffling display while performing its namesake mew. Which leads me to a post on local blog A Little Urbanity that is, shall we say, a bit disparaging of our decision to pursue life in the country. As a lifelong city slicker, I was definitely a little [...]

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We have a new visitor to our hanging platform feeder. This Gray Catbird hopped onto our balcony early this afternoon while the cat and I were lounging out there. The bird eyeballed me for a second, figured I’m fairly benign, then hopped into the platform feeder. It came back repeatedly till sundown. There are a [...]

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I’ve learned one thing in the past few months of taking photos of birds. It’s really hard. Birds move around a lot, especially when you’re trying to focus and stop your hands from jittering and find the bird itself in the viewfinder. Yesterday I had my lens trained on two Gray Catbirds as they chased [...]

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