4 November 2024

Juncos

Monday, February 24th, 2020
Dark-eyed Junco, East Millcreek, Salt Lake City, Utah, 24 February 2020.
Dark-eyed Junco.

I’m pretty sure the collective name for a flock of juncos is “a shitload.”

It was a mostly cloudy morning, sub-freezing still, with a breeze. Chilly, for sure. There were a bunch of elk lollygagging up the bowl a ways, but we spied no deer. A good list of the usual bird species—including a shitload of Dark-eyed Juncos.

I can’t really estimate how many there were. As is their habit, they stayed hidden among the scrub oak branches and amid tufts of yellow grass. But there were a lot. Scores, at least.

A shitload.

This afternoon mostly cloudy became mostly sunny. No precipitation until the weekend, looks like.

Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 9:15 a.m., I hiked a few hundred feet up the mountain.

1. Lesser Goldfinch** (v)
2. House Finch*
3. Northern Flicker**
4. Pine Siskin (v)
5. Dark-eyed Junco*
6. Black-billed Magpie*
7. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay*
8. Black-capped Chickadee
9. Song Sparrow (v)

Elsewhere

10. Eurasian Collared Dove
11. Rock Pigeon

Mammals

Rocky Mountain Elk

(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere

**Voice only elsewhere

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