I am beginning to worry about the return of our favorite winter bird, the Junco. The little dark gray with white breast bird is long overdue in our yard. The latest sighting I recorded was November 14 in 2006 and the earliest was October 10 in 2005. And when I was in Minnesota this fall in mid-October, they were already busily feeding on the ground at my folks. Generally speaking, that would put the Juncos here in Indianapolis about two weeks later.
I am really concerned and can only hope it is because of the mild autumn in the midwest that they haven't felt the need to push farther south. Time will tell.

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