Juncos seems to nestle as close to the base of the house as possible, under porches and behind bushes. But I love the way the flickers flatten themselves on the lee side of the trunk of our honey locust to keep warm. They often line up along the trunk, as flattened as they can get. It is so inte
They hang out in my hen house along with various other sparrows and finches.
There is a gap above the door which allows them to come and go. Between the
heat from the hens and the heat lamp, which I have going right now, they are
nice and warm. I haven't seen them eating the chicken feed, but th
I have been getting a flock of bushtits, 12 of them, that are staying in my little garden most of the time. They occasionally go to the bushes and look for things, but I think they’ve cleaned those out and now go to the seed cake, seed column feeder and suet. In the past, they’ve come to my
I'm pretty sure at least one Dark-eyed Junco spends the night within the
frame of an outdoor lounge-type chair. It (the frame) has a large opening,
out of which a junco has emerged the last two mornings. There's a
perch-like rod that runs horizontally across the frame. There are bird
droppings