[va-richmond-general] Re: Lack of Birds

 Do you mean Sibley? 
    
 -----Original Message-----
 From: jimvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 To: va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Sent: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:26 PM
 Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: Lack of Birds
 
   Today I saw our first juncos – about two or three of them hopping amongst 
the white-throated sparrows; the sparrows arrived about a month ago. Both of 
these are emberizids. I looked at my Peterson bird book, and that book calls 
the birds dark-eyed juncos, slate-colored juncos, northern juncos, and 
snowbirds. If “northern junco” is not a proper term, then it became 
improper recently, because the Peterson book uses the term. I note that a 
recent Sydney (or Sidney?) that we got does not mention “northern junco”, 
so maybe that’s the case.    Incidently, Sydney mentions that the 
white-throated sparrow sometimes crosses with the juncos to make a 
white-throated junco (my term), which he says is “rare”.    Jim Blowers     
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[mailto:va-richmond-general-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Al Warfield
 Sent: Thursday, 2006 November 9 12:57
 To: snyderfolks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Jim Blowers; va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: Lack of Birds     On the other hand, we 
have had plenty of birds in or near the yard recently. A few juncos, lots of 
white-throats, titmice, chickadees, hairy and downy woodpeckers, w b 
nuthatches, doves, blue jays, cardinals, carolina wrens, cedar waxwings, 
red-shouldered and sharpshin hawks, and crows. It varies according to time of 
day and weather, but there are plenty here along Falling Creek. This early the 
juncos are around but you may have to go somewhere like JR Park or Dutch Gap to 
see them. There were plenty on Skyline Drive last week.       I had a carolina 
wren visit with me in the shop a couple of weeks ago. It was there for a few 
days. I kept seeing evidence, and then one day it flew out of my wood rack 
while I was drilling holes in a cedar log to make a feeder for the auction. I 
opened the door and went to the back of the shop, then it flew out the door. 
Smart bird! I don't know what it was eating, probably nothing.       By the 
way, those are Dark-eyed Juncos, not Northern Juncos (unless there has been a 
recent change in the nomenclature). Slate-colored Juncos are a subspecies of 
Dark-eyed Junco, and there are 3 other sub-species that are much more 
localized. There are also several different populations of Slate-colored 
depending on location - they are all over North America - and they vary in 
appearance.       Al Warfield   ----- Original Message -----   From: Nelda 
Snyder    To: Jim Blowers ; va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx    Sent: 
Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:11 PM   Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: Lack 
of Birds         Jim, We've had the same experience. We had one junco very 
early but haven't seen any since. Our veggie garden near the lake has lots of 
white throats but none have come to the house feeders.       Nelda             
----- Original Message -----    From: Jim Blowers    To: 
va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx   Sent: 11/8/2006 9:52:48 PM    Subject: 
[va-richmond-general] Lack of Birds      I have found at times since late 
August that there have been few birds in our yard. The birds seem to be picking 
up some, including cardinals, titmice, chickadees, a downy woodpecker, a 
thrasher, and especially some mourning doves.    I have not seen any northern 
juncos yet (also called snowbirds and slate-colored juncos). They usually visit 
our place from November to sometime in March or April. Has anyone seen them?   
Jim Blowers     
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