By Taylor PiephoffBy Taylor Piephoff
| June 13, 2013
Over the past three years a few species have indeed been added to the Mecklenburg County nesting list. The latest has come to light just this past week: the Baltimore oriole.
By Taylor PiephoffBy Taylor Piephoff
| June 6, 2013
Two subjects dominate the correspondences at this time of year: Where are the hummingbirds, and what might have caused a backyard nest to fail?
By Taylor Piephoff
| May 30, 2013
Carolina wrens are notorious for choosing nest sites in close proximity to humans. They are also fun to have around.
By Taylor Piephoff
| May 23, 2013
This is the third and final year for the Mecklenburg County Breeding Bird Atlas. Volunteers have been collecting nesting data for the last two years on any bird species that they observe.
By Taylor Piephoff
| May 16, 2013
This spring has produced one of the most disappointing migrations in several years for many area birders. All of that seemed to change recently.
By Taylor PiephoffBy Taylor Piephoff
| May 9, 2013
For the past two weeks I have been inundated with questions. About half of the messages are from folks lamenting the sudden and alarming drop in numbers of birds visiting their feeders. The others are overjoyed with the arrival of some striking feeder birds that many have never seen before.
By Taylor Piephoff
| May 2, 2013
Last Saturday I participated in the Charlotte Spring Bird Count, a census of the breeding birds and migrants in our area that day. During the course of the day I was able to observe several instances of nesting behaviors from several different species.
By Taylor PiephoffBy Taylor Piephoff
| April 25, 2013
I spent last Saturday morning walking through Dilworth’s Latta Park in search of spring migrants. The date was too early to hope for the trees to be full of neotropicals passing through, but a modest variety could be hoped for nonetheless.
By Taylor PiephoffBy Taylor Piephoff
| April 18, 2013
I always feel like spring is here to stay once the white-eyed vireos arrive. I have been hearing lots of them lately. These small birds are among the earliest of the returning nesting birds.
By Taylor Piephoff
| April 11, 2013
I made a short chase to McAlpine Creek Park in east Charlotte last Tuesday evening to find a pair of horned grebes that had been reported the previous day. I thought it would be a long shot for the birds to still be present.
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