Greensboro Birds

Not to be a big stat junkie or anything, but April 2008 kicked the butt of every other month that came before it. I started this site a little over a year ago because a) everyone and their dog has a blog—in fact, this is possibly my fifth or sixth, and b) I’m too cheap [...]

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I spent the past week watching an American Robin build this nest in a poison oak-covered tree near my office window. (Fighting the war against poison oak is how I spend my spare time, by the way. By the looks of my skin, I’m losing.) Looks like I’ll have plenty of incentive to keep an [...]

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I don’t report on other bird blogs or bird news very often, but it would be a shame if you didn’t have a chance to see New York Times Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin and his 10-year-old son, Jack, rowing to a mangrove patch in Florida to film a nest of tricolored heron babies on [...]

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Gothamist has a post about FlexPetz, a joint in NYC that rents out dogs (yes, real live dogs). The monthly fee for this Netflix-style pet rental? $279.95!!! (And that only gets you a dog for a single day; additional days are $45.) Tito is clearly pretty easygoing about who he hangs out with, having chosen [...]

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Happy and Tito are forming a fast friendship. They’re already posing for CD covers for the hipster band they would form if they had opposable thumbs.

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Josh and I had been talking about maybe getting a second dog. Happy loves to run with other dogs and gets really excited when she hears other dogs playing in a nearby yard. It’s a little pitiful to see her run to the top of the hill, wagging her tail excitedly, and then realizing that [...]

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This is the second year I’ve submitted photos to the Great Backyard Bird Count photo gallery. Last year, none of my shots were chosen, which I admit was a bummer for a competitive nut like me. This year, however, my slouching dark-eyed junco made the cut! See it here in all it’s glory! Woohoo!

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It’s downright balmy around here lately, and our garden is starting to prove that all that digging and raking … and digging … we did last fall was a good idea. Leaves are peeking out, buds are getting fat, and bumblebees are emerging from hibernation. Let’s take a walk!

Here’s the first American bumblebee of spring [...]

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