Mine are mostly males, and they are strutting around, flicking the sides
of their tails a lot, chasing one another, and stuffing themselves 
with thistle seed.

If they stick around until May, doesn't that make them late arrivals 
where they nest?
Wouldn't birds that compete with them for nest sites already be there?
Of course, maybe they just think it's still winter around here. . . .

At 02:48 PM 4/19/2007, Frode Jacobsen wrote:
>I still have about five juncos lingering in our backyard and my feeder.
>They are however all females and yearling males (occasionally singing)
>that most likely are delaying their departure until the breeding season
>draws closer.
>
>Frode Jacobsen
>Baltimore, MD
>
>
> > According to the Yellow Book, juncos only nest, or
> > have nested, in Garrett County. Juncos often linger
> > into May but most of them will be gone already or
> > soon.
> >
> > Tyler Bell
> > 
> > California, Maryland
> >

--Pat

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More than any other thing that pertains to the body
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