Re: [cobirds] Where do Dark-eyed Juncos spend cold nights (Arapahoe)?

So interesting! We have a scrubby area of cotoneaster, mountain mahogany, and some kind of volunteer small juniper that's full of sparrows and towhees, and there are some wood pieces of an old chicken coop leaning on a shed where there are juncos all the time. Yesterday, I saw a couple emerge from a deep window well where there's a dead vine at the bottom. The juncos are getting quite masterful at eating from my feeder as well as on the ground if the blue jays shake seed out with their heavy landings. (Otherwise, squirrels are getting the seed on the ground first.) Yesterday it was so cold that I noticed a red-breasted nuthatch sitting still, puffed up, on a branch instead of just darting in and out as they usually do. And I woke both of the last two days to a rapping that at first I thought was a squirrel trying to break into the house, but turned out to be the flickers chipping away at the frozen suet. 

Susanna Donato

Denver

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