Greensboro Birds

Hot off the presses from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology:
Announcing a new FeederWatch Cam
We have recently launched a new streaming camera from the home of FeederWatch participants David Smith and Shanna Rendon in Grand Junction, Colorado. We are very excited to feature our first-ever participant FeederWatch Cam and are grateful to David and Shanna for [...]

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My very first season counting birds for Cornell University’s Project FeederWatch was 2002–2003. We lived in a “loft” on North 1st and Kent in the acutely self-aware Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I say “loft” because it was essentially a decrepit shell of space without walls, plus, after moving from the third floor down to the first, a [...]

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This is what greeted me from outside my office window early this morning: the female white-tail deer and her two young charges that use our yard and (soon-to-be-our) woods as a thoroughfare. Our friend Ben gave us a persimmon-flavored deer lick as a housewarming gift, which is affixed to a pine at the property perimeter. [...]

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Who visited our feeders this weekend? (Totals are most viewed at one time, not cumulative.)

Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Blue Jay 1
Carolina Chickadee 3
Tufted Titmouse 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 2 (pictured at top right)
Brown-headed Nuthatch 3
Carolina Wren 2
Song Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 3
House Finch 3 (0 with eye disease)

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Project FeederWatch has posted updated trend graphs showing increases and decreases of species since the start of FeederWatch. This is one of the things Cornell does with all the data ordinary birdwatchers submit every year. I was particularly interested in the graphs for the Brown-headed Nuthatch. I’ve encountered so many new life-list birds since moving [...]

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