The Juncos are Gone

Our juncos left for the Canada (or the Appalachians) last week. They are frequent visitors to our bird feeder here in central Maryland during the winter. It seemed that they did not all leave at the same time…but within just a few days. There were the usual number one day…the only one or two the next…then none at all.

They are only here in the winter and then go to their breeding grounds for the late spring and summer. They overlap with the chipping sparrows for a few weeks in the spring in Maryland – the sparrows coming north to Maryland for their breeding season. The birds are about the same size and do not share the bird feeder gracefully.