Greensboro Birds

Over at the Chinqua Penn walking trail, massive numbers of vultures are milling around with the black heifers and their calves. Typically I see maybe one black vulture for every 10 or so turkey vultures, but lately it’s more of a 50/50 split. These are black vultures in this photo.

Here’s another black vulture. There were [...]

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Happy Fourth, birders. We live next to a Revolutionary War battlefield, which is where I do most of my birding. We also live in a town named for that battle’s general, Nathanael Greene, and we live in an apartment community also named for said general. So naturally today is a big day in our neighborhood, [...]

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Josh, Happy, and I walked part of the Lake Brandt Greenway before Sunday’s Bristol race. It runs 2.6 miles from the parking area of Guilford Courthouse NMP along the old Atlantic-Yadkin rail corridor. You can reach Bur-Mil Park and other trails from the greenway, which winds through rolling woodlands.
There were lots of turtles lounging in [...]

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