Greensboro Birds

A monarch butterfly wafted its way up the hill and out of the yard this afternoon. Of course, it appeared shortly after I thought, Wonder when the monarchs will arrive? Not saying I’m the blogging Patricia Arquette or anything; it’s just weird how that happens. Anyone else seeing monarchs yet?
*FOTY = First of the year; [...]

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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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Monarchs are making their way through the northern Piedmont on their way to the high mountain forests of Mexico. (Monarchs west of the Rockies fly to a small grove of trees on the California coast.) I see them flying through town several times a day now, and they’re always moving in a southwesterly direction. It’s [...]

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On Saturday morning I said to Josh, “I haven’t seen many Monarchs this summer.” Which means, of course, that we saw a whole mess of ‘em when we took Happy out to the park later that day. Fortunately we had the camera. Unfortunately the Monarchs refused to land for more than a moment, and when [...]

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