Summer birdwatching can be slow and challenging. The spring migrants have moved through, the fall migrants haven’t returned yet and the winter birds are a few months out from arriving. But what makes ...

DEAR JOAN: Over the past four weeks, a pair of juncos have twice built nests and laid eggs in our hanging geraniums. We became aware when we observed the parent birds keeping a very close eye on us ...

Juncos that breed in the Northeast or the southern Appalachians may migrate short distances or move to lower elevations for winter. In our region, these birds nest primarily in subalpine coniferous ...

Normally, the dark-eyed juncos return this time of year. They don’t like our warm climate for nesting season. Juncos nest in very high elevations and as far north as Alaska. They love the cold and ...

In mid-June, your reporter briefly thrust his phone over this nest in a front-porch flower basket, just to see who was at home. Vancouver Audubon member Susan Saul identified this baby as a dark-eyed ...

I suspect the great naturalist and pioneer ornithologist was optimistic in his estimation of junco familiarity. His “snow-bird” is now formally known as the dark-eyed junco, and back in Audubon’s time ...

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 ...