I send you a white Reed chock[116] by name some kind ofJunco or litle sort thereof I haue had another very white when fresh.
A nest of the Junco was found on the rafters of a barn in Connecticut.
Illustration: THE JUNCO ON HIS WATCH TOWER] I followed the fields to a nearby patch of woods.
I climbed into the cupola of the barn this morning, as I frequently do throughout the winter, and brought down a dazed junco that was beating his life out up there against the window-panes.
We are clutched by these terrors even as the junco was clutched in my goblin hand.
I frequently climb into the cupola of the barn during the winter, and bring down a dazed junco that would beat his life out up there against the window-panes.
We are clutched by terror even as the junco was clutched in my goblin hand.
A slate-colored junco did a pretty thing in the woods one day of early spring--much more pleasing to see than the incident just described.
Master Junco is not; he is too sane a bird for that!
While I was so closely associated with the junco in the old barn I had a good chance to observe her incubating habits.
My junco was a little nervous at first and showed her white quills, but she soon grew used to my presence, and would alight upon the chair which I kept for callers, and upon my hammock-ropes.
As I sat morning after morning weaving my thoughts together and looking out of the great barn doorway into sunlit fields, the junco wove her straws and horsehairs, and deposited there on three successive days her three exquisite eggs.
The junco impresses me as a fidgety, emphatic, feather-edged sort of bird; the two white quills in its tail which flash out so suddenly on every movement seem to stamp in this impression.
The junco is a snowbird, anyway, his colors match leaden skies, and he seems to me out of place without a fellow flock of snow flakes.
The junco may come as early as this, according to the best authorities, though I confess I never have any luck in finding him much before November.
Its eggs are not likely to differ from those of the Pink-sided Junco which it most nearly resembles.
This species is similar to the Slate-colored Junco but has a reddish brown patch on the back.
The habits and nesting habits of this western Junco are the same as those of the eastern, the birds building in similar localities and making the nests of the same material.
Guadalupe Island off Lower California Resembles the Pink-sided Junco but is smaller, darker and duller colored.
A slightly larger bird than the Slate-colored Junco and with the bill horn color instead of pinkish white.
Similar to the Pink-sided Juncobut duller colored; eggs probably the same.
Merriam (1917) saw a female on the ground gathering material; she "was attacked by a Junco and after a chase the Junco actually caught and held her.
The Junco was apparently victor for after one more flight to her nest the female Cape May was not again seen to trespass on the Junco's territory or do any more nest building that morning.
Being now 360 leagues west from Ferro, another of the birds called Rabo-de-junco was seen.
Rabo de junco is explained to signify Rush-tailed: Rabo being a tail and Junco a rush in the Spanish language.
Next day there came a rabo de junco and an alcatraz from the westwards, and many sparrows were seen.
A rabo de junco likewise flew past; the currents for some of the last days were not so regular as before, but changed with the tide, and the weeds were not nearly so abundant.
Friday the twenty-first another alcatraz and a rabo de junco were seen, and vast quantities of weeds as far as the eye could carry towards the north.
They haven't any big animals here," said the Junco to the Snow Bunting.
I say," called a young Junco to a young Snow Bunting, "wouldn't you like to show some of these playmates of ours the countries where we were born?
That was how it happened that soon after the Blue Jay had told about the Bats' cave, one wide-awake young Junco saw a reddish-brown animal trotting over the grass toward them.
Carolina Junco (carolinensis), found in the Alleghanies from Virginia to Georgia; there are several races found west of the Rockies.
And the young junco shows, in its striped appearance of breast and back, and the lateral white quills in the tail, its kinship to the grass finch or vesper sparrow.
From that time until April the Junco is of our commonest birds.
Gray skies and a snow-covered earth are theJunco colors, and when he flashes them along the hedgerows and wood borders we know that although it is only late September, winter will soon be with us.
The Warbler stood upon a favorite perch of his, a spindling, solitary fir some hundred feet in height, while the Junco held a station even higher on the tip of another fir a block away.
Such a darling littlejunco called to me with his sharp kissing note.
She says as soon as Saint Peter lets dear Dad through the pearly gates, a little junco will fly up and say, 'I've been waiting for you.
I stared up at him and said, "Junco with the grey head and white tail feathers, I like you.
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