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November 1, 2026
Birds of the Blue Ridge
CURRENT Birds of the Blue Ridge
There may never be another corn crop, but the result is a pair of clever and reliable feathered friends in the backyard.
Early holiday gifts are flying overhead as the Sandhill Cranes return to (and through) the Blue Ridge from points north!
This sweetly-songed wood warbler is (along with the Black-and-white Warbler) one of the most distinct in the Blue Ridge.
The acrobatic sunshine-yellow males and their olive-yellow female mates that we’ve named American Goldfinches are seasonally some of the last birds to nest in the Blue Ridge.
Swift in flight and fleet of foot in the branches, the wood duck can be seen year-round and/or during breeding season across the Blue Ridge and a large swath of North America.
There may never be another corn crop, but the result is a pair of clever and reliable feathered friends in the backyard.
Early holiday gifts are flying overhead as the Sandhill Cranes return to (and through) the Blue Ridge from points north!
This sweetly-songed wood warbler is (along with the Black-and-white Warbler) one of the most distinct in the Blue Ridge.
The acrobatic sunshine-yellow males and their olive-yellow female mates that we’ve named American Goldfinches are seasonally some of the last birds to nest in the Blue Ridge.
Swift in flight and fleet of foot in the branches, the wood duck can be seen year-round and/or during breeding season across the Blue Ridge and a large swath of North America.
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