[obol] Re: orchard Juncos
- From: Barbara Combs <bcombs232@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Lars Norgren <larspernorgren@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 21:35:56 -0700
There has been a singing Dark-eyed Junco on the west side of the cemetery
on the U of O campus for at least about a week and a half, including this
evening. During the Breeding Bird Atlas years in the mid 1990s, I found a
pair of Dark-eyed Juncos nesting at "The Danish Cemetery," which is a
little bit west of Junction City, still on the valley floor. Both places
have scattered evergreens.
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Lars Per Norgren <larspernorgren@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> People occasionally wonder about Juncos nesting on the Willamette
> Valley floor. The conifer rich campuses of U of O and OSU immediately come
> to mind. A few years ago I found a Junco nest in a pie cherry orchard. That
> was July. It was the nw corner of a large fruit operation, with extensive
> Douglas-fir a stone's throw away. Today a Junco flew onto the powerline in
> the middle of the farm (1/2 mile se of where I found the nest ), then down
> into a block of mature Italian plum trees. 150m north of this spot another
> Junco landed on the utility line. I would think the second bird represented
> a different territory . Both birds were in the middle of about a square
> mile of fruit trees on a south facing slope.
> Some blocks of trees are mature with a closed canopy, others very
> young with the ground mostly unshaded. A common feature is the sterile
> nature of the ground--there is nearly no plant life at all. Could this be
> part of its appeal to Juncos? Lars
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Barbara Combs obie '70
Lane County, OR
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