The Dark-eyed Junco is a sparrow. While it might be seen around the Lake at any time of the year, it is most common in the spring when juncos that wintered to the south of us pass through this region to breed farther north. The spring brings us a jamboree of juncos.
Our local Dark-eyed Juncos are more to be noted for their black hangman’s hood than their eyes, although the hood is darker in the male than the female.
A male Dark-eyed Junco stares at the camera.
Another male sits in the trees.
The hood of the female is more grey than black.
We’ve been watching the Junco’s as well and I get quite a charge out of them. Don’t you think they look like gentlemen in Morning Suits?
I have a type of Junco feeding here all winter, Different from these, What are they called??
Wes, I would need to see a reasonably good picture. The Dark-eyed Junco has a number of subspecies and it might be another one of those.
I love to be surprised by them hopping/foraging a little ahead of me on paths, their sooty hoods left, right.
Could that now be the collective noun for juncos: jamboree?