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Category - Backyard Birding
Bird Watching for Winter Migrant Birds
The Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, North Carolina area (aka The Triangle) is host to a wide variety of...
Add Bird Watching to Your Summer Fun
Whether you are on the screened porch sipping iced tea, doing some work in the garden, or enjoying...
Are You Ready for Bluebirds?
Where have all the bluebirds gone? Did you know there was a time when the bluebird was as common as...
How to Attract Bluebirds to Your Yard
Many years ago the Eastern bluebird was one of North Carolina’s most common songbirds...
Make Your Backyard Bird Friendly in Winter
I love winter. Run me out of town if you must but I had to let it be known. The cold weather...
Our Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Did you know, the Ruby-throated Hummingbird was not known to the first Europeans arriving to the...
How-To Build a Bird Bubbler
Want to give a gift that keeps on giving? No, I’m not talking about sunchokes, Helianthus...
7 Ways You Can Help Hummingbirds
Flowers are blooming, the weather is warmer and hummingbirds are returning to our gardens.
Local Birds Have A New Home
Birds in the region have a new place to land– at the North Carolina Executive Mansion in downtown...
A Quick Guide to Bird Seed Types
If you don’t have hollly berries to feed the birds, you can turn to seeds. Here’s a quick guide...
Gardening for the Birds
That plants and flowers set a gardener’s heart aflutter is a given. Each plant a gardener...
Native Plants Help North Carolina Birds
Audubon North Carolina has launched the Local Roots program to encourage use of native plants that...
Attracting a Summer Hummingbird to Your Garden
It’s happening as we speak. Visitors from Mexico and Central America are arriving daily in the...
Great Backyard Bird Count
The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in...