Join me for my alphabetical garden tour with things starting with J. Juncos, one of my favourite little birds, are mainly winter visitors but they do arrive in the late Fall and stay until about mid spring. Juncos enjoy all … Continued
~ The little slate coloured juncos are frequent winter visitors to the gardens. Juncos are found across North America and they vary slightly in appearance from east to west. Here in my part of Ontario, Canada we see the slate … Continued
The winter visitors are enjoying the variety of seeds and nuts in and around the feeders. Keeping them filled can be a challenge.
The bird feeders are busy places and a variety of birds can be found at any time of the year. In the winter the most common visitors are bluejays, sparrows, chickadees, nuthatches, cardinals, goldfinches, woodpeckers, doves, and juncos.
A favourite spot for the birds to perch is in the branches of the pine tree before they flit in and out to the feeders. They flit so quickly it is sometimes hard to get good photos of them and … Continued
On our trip to British Columbia in November 2011 we spotted some different birds than we see here in Ontario. The dark eyed, or Oregon juncos out there are just a bit different from the slate coloured juncos we see … Continued