LadyCook61
Master Chef
Winter must be near, I saw some Juncos , those black and white birds. Some people call them snowbirds.
Gee, I'm really surprised to hear that. Are you sure you're talking about "Slate-Colored Juncos"? Sparrow-sized slate-backed, snow-white-breasted males & greyish-brown white-breasted females?
Both back in NY & here in VA, Slate-Colored Juncos were & are very quiet nondescript little birds that travel in pairs or very small groups - not in flocks of hundreds. Plus, they're incapable of making a "racket". Their voice is a faint musical trill & an even fainter twitter when in flight. And in years & years of serious birdwatching, I've never seen them otherwise.
Are you sure you're not thinking of Starlings or another member of the blackbird family?
Gee, I'm really surprised to hear that. Are you sure you're talking about "Slate-Colored Juncos"? Sparrow-sized slate-backed, snow-white-breasted males & greyish-brown white-breasted females?
Both back in NY & here in VA, Slate-Colored Juncos were & are very quiet nondescript little birds that travel in pairs or very small groups - not in flocks of hundreds. Plus, they're incapable of making a "racket". Their voice is a faint musical trill & an even fainter twitter when in flight. And in years & years of serious birdwatching, I've never seen them otherwise.
Are you sure you're not thinking of Starlings or another member of the blackbird family?
We haven't seen the Juncos here yet. I've never really paid close attention, but I think they come in around the last of November, first of December. We always have quite a few, but they're not noisy at all.
The birds still have all kinds of berries and even bugs to eat on here...we won't feed them until about December.
What do you feed your birds, Kitchen? I always used sunflower seeds and cracked corn, but DH started buying the Wild Bird Feed. I thought my nuthatches had left, until he brought home sunflower seeds one day because they were out of the mixed feed. Lo and behold, here came the nuthatches and the downy woodpeckers!