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Lake Brandt Greenway report

March 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: Canada Goose · Double-crested Cormorant · Eastern Phoebe · Local Birding Areas · Painted Turtle

Plays well with others

March 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments

American Goldfinches and Northern Cardinals are frequent visitors to this beautiful tree. There’s a feeder just behind them that’s popular with the neighborhood Goldfinches. Now that temperatures are back in the 70s and 80s, the Painted Turtles have emerged from hibernation and are basking on logs again. Our Mute Swans, which have begun nesting, can’t [...]

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Tags: American Goldfinch · Mute Swan · Northern Cardinal · Painted Turtle