In the autumn, when the juncos come into the United States from Canada, small flocks of their fox sparrow cousins, that have spent the summer from the St. Lawrence region and Manitoba northward to Alaska, may also be expected.
Almost any time after the first of October, little excursion parties of Juncos may be looked for, and the custom continues all winter long.
The Doctor," in Citizen Bird, tells this pretty story of his winter pets: "My flock of Juncos were determined to brave all weathers.
Last winter I left the large door of the barn open, so that my flock of juncos could feed inside upon the floor.
There came a warm day in January, and across my thawing path crawled a woolly bear caterpillar, a vanessa butterfly flitted through the woods, and the juncos sang.
A flock of juncos will strip the fruit from every spikenard in the neighborhood the first day it arrives from the North.
In the open grassy fields and weed patches, too, we find many myrtle warblers associated with the scattered flocks of juncos and field and chipping sparrows, feeding on the ground.
It was compactly composed of weathered grasses, frayed-out plant fibres, and tail and wing feathers of juncos and other small birds.
The gray-headed juncos were very abundant in the Rockies, and are the only species at present known to breed in the State of Colorado.
Away up here the gray-headed juncos were trilling like warblers, and hopping about on their pine-needle carpet, creeping in and out among the rocks, hunting for tidbits.
It may be said here that the gray-headed juncos were observed at various places all along the way from Georgetown to Green Lake and far above that body of water.
He observed that an Alpine chipmunk was active under and around the tree and that juncos reared young 40 feet from the den but that the chipmunk and juncos were unmolested by the ermines.
As I reached the edge of the trees white-skirted juncos flew up in front of me.
No blue jays squalled, nor white-skirted juncos clicked; neither were there any nuthatches running gruntingly up and down the tree-trunks.
But my flock of Juncos were determined to brave all weathers.
When I was a boy here at the Farm, these white-vested Juncos were my winter pets.
Juncos often dropped in, pecked indifferently at the crumbs, slipped off the tin cans they tried to perch on, and flew off.
This may be scattered by the bushel or in a sufficient quantity to insure a hearty meal for all visiting Juncos and Tree Sparrows, with perhaps less common winter seed-eaters.
In the latter part of February the juncosbegan to rehearse their spring songs, which were a welcome sound in the almost unbroken silence of the winter.
Where all the birds sleep on biting winter nights it would be difficult to say, but the acute little juncos lease the farmer's corn shocks hard by the woods.
Another day the juncos are feeding on the seeds of the foxtail or pigeon grass, in an old orchard hard by the border of the woods.
They were made by the juncos and tree sparrows, and on examining the seed pods and clusters above the bank we note that they are torn and ragged.
As you stand at the border of the woods in the gloaming you can hear the rustling of the fodder as the juncosmove about in their tepees, trying to find the choicest and snuggest berths.
The sharp chirps of juncos are heard before the ice begins to form, and they stay with us all winter.
The juncos had gone north to nest in flocks of thousands, in a wonder of full song, all eagerly pressing on towards the hills but they left their songs behind them, as it were, to be sung by the other birds.
Nor, lovely as they are to my eye, will they be less beautiful to the winter chippies, the goldfinches, juncos and a host of other seed-eating birds who will find them bountifully spread for their delectation all the winter through.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "juncos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
