Saturday, November 16, 2019

Snowbirds Drift In

On this cloudy as well as chilly afternoon, the get-go dark-eyed juncos of the flavor appeared on our Littleton, Colorado, farm.  They were members of the Oregon subspecies as well as had arrived merely inwards time.

Commonly known every bit snowbirds, juncos are small, hardy songbirds that summertime upward inwards Canada or inwards the mount ranges of North America.  Fond of cool weather, they wintertime primarily across the northern one-half of the the United States as well as frequently operate into amongst the get-go snows of autumn.  The latter fact is peculiarly truthful hither inwards Metro Denver and, inside the adjacent few weeks, our farm volition host dozens of these wintertime residents.  Gray-headed juncos descend from the Front Range as well as the slate-colored as well as Oregon subspecies operate into from to a greater extent than northern latitudes; on occasion, white-winged juncos too catch from the Black Hills portion of western South Dakota.

All 4 subspecies are classified every bit dark-eyed juncos as well as are frequently observed inwards suburbs as well as along province roads, their white outer tail feathers obvious every bit they scatter toward cover.  I am pleased to choose them dorsum on our farm as well as I appreciate the conditions alert that they bring....snow flurries are expected this night or tomorrow. 

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