Greensboro Birds

NB: In the 18 months that I’ve been toiling at this incarnation of Greensboro Birds, I’ve had almost 23,000 unique visits and, as of a few minutes ago, 45,504 page views! Not bad for a little bird blog, right? And it’s proof that even though our enthusiasm for the natural world often seems to go, [...]

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Hey yo, where my bees at?!? Check out this awesome PSA about colony collapse from helpthehoneybees.com. Sponsored by Häagen-Dazs, the lush site (with relaxing birdsong!) contains info about our disappearing bees and how we might help them, as well as some fun time-killing stuff like the Sims-style Make a Bee page. Here’s mine:

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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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Our Yoshino cherry tree is in bloom, and the honey bees are making the most of it. Since moving into this house last fall, we’ve planted four trees in front and seven in back—and inherited another mess of ‘em in the adjacent wooded section. Everything is in bloom rotation, with the red maples and pears [...]

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