Trego's Mountain Ear

With the weather warming, the bird feeder (the cat’s equivalent of television) is showing more activity. These days, it’s mostly dark-eyed juncos.

The juncos are basically a sparrow, not exceptionally small for sparrows, and considerably easier to distinguish than sparrows typically are. Here, the juncos tend to be gray with dark heads and some white flashes among their tail feathers. They’re a common forest bird, which breed in upper Canada and can be found throughout the continental US.