i was on the sammamish plateau on sunday and noticed some similar juncoes
there... they were also very fluffed out even though temperatures were in
the low 60s... they looked perfectly healthy and were very active...

00 caren
http://www.parkgallery.org
sammamish plateau


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From: tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu
[mailto:tweeters-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of Christine
Southwick
Sent: Tuesday, 2006 October 10 08:52
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: [Tweeters] different looking juncos


Yesterday evening I had a number of Dark-eyed Juncos that looke different
from
the juncos I regularly see in my yard (They weren't here a week ago when we
banded in my yard). The mantles were a distinct chestnut--almost a glowing
chestnut (but not quite rufus)--much brighter than the other juncos beside
them. This was true of both the males and the females. And they looked
really
healthy--a couple of the males looked like they had extra weight in the
chest(it wasn't cold enough for them to be fluffed) The males had dark black
heads, so they weren't gray-headed. Has anyone else observed this in the
last
couple of days? Are these Oregon Juncos, or a different sub-species
migrating through?

Christine Southwick
NE 163 and 28 Pl NE
Shoreline

clsouthwick at comcast.net





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