Caught a junco, sort of

Junco on the snow
Junco on the snow

With their dark grey backs, juncos are really easy to spot against the snow, but they move so quickly, it’s really hard to get a picture. This morning, the juncos  (and the sparrows and the starlings and the cardinals) were hungry. They were all over the feeders, the sunflower seed, the nyjer, the suet.  They seemed nervous, too, flitting about.  Just because I was creeping up to the window with my camera muttering, I’ll get you my pretties, that couldn’t have anything to do with it.

So here’s one of them, standing under a pasture rose, not eating the crinkled up rose hips. It looks like a black and white ball on a couple of sticks, but it’s a junco. Just before it hopped out of view.

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