I had just taken a sip of my morning coffee the other day when I looked out the window and saw a dark-eyed junco on the birdbath. It had been six years since I last saw the bird in my neighborhood ...

AUTUMN ARRIVES and with it cool mornings. Then one morning I look out the kitchen window and the ground seems to be moving with little dark flecks flitting all around.

The dark-eyed junco is actually part of the new world sparrow group and between the 15 subspecies is one of the most widespread birds in North America. Populations thrive from the Arctic to ...

THE APPEARANCE of dark-eyed juncos is often thought of as a harbinger of winter’s onset. They appear here in northern New England late in the fall. Their slate upper coloring ...

Junco hyemalis. Still haven’t ... Juncos come in a variety of color phases. Dark-eyed are generally the most common in Kansas and can be identified by their white belly and white outer feathers ...

Dark-eyed junco birds primarily eat seeds and insects. Along with the aforementioned sources of food, including corn, millet, and weeds seeds, their diet also consists of seeds from grasses.

Last year, 2020, on Oct. 18, with a heavy frost the snowbirds arrived in our yard. The year prior, 2019, they arrived on Oct. 15. This year the snowbirds, aka a dark-eyed junco (once known as the ...

GRAND FORKS – The dark-eyed junco is another of the signature birds of October. They may be more abundant than last week’s bird, the Canada goose – and perhaps as abundant as the snow goose ...

The birds I’m referring to are Dark-eyed Juncos (photo by Ryan Hodnett). Although we are within their year-round range, I think I’m seeing them more this winter.

Watch for juncos feeding on the ground under your feeders this winter. This lively bird is a ground dweller and feeds on seeds and small fruits in the open. It ...

This little bird is a dark-eyed junco. It is a member of a genus of small American sparrows that are commonly referred to as "snow birds." The plumage of a dark-eyed junco's head, neck and breast ...