Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!world!rmura From: rmura@world.std.com (Ron Mura) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: winter is here Message-ID: Date: 21 Oct 90 22:45:06 GMT References: <28014@bellcore.bellcore.com> Sender: rmura@world.std.com (Ron Mura) Organization: The World Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: hammy@bagheera.ctt.bellcore.com's message of 19 Oct 90 13:00:48 GMT In article <28014@bellcore.bellcore.com> hammy@bagheera.ctt.bellcore.com (John G. Smith) writes: > > Winter would appear to have officially started. The first of our > backyard "winter" species - about a dozen white-thorated sparrows - > showed up yesterday, and have been kicking and shuffling through the > fallen leaves ever since. Next in should be the juncos. We saw our first juncos (all females) of the autumn here on Oct. 14. No white-throateds yet, although they are less frequent than juncos. Typical dates for junco arrival and departure in our area (west of Boston) are Oct. 15 and April 15. Their appearance at our feeders are framed pretty closely by those dates most years, although it is not unusual to get a straggler several days later in April. -- - Ron Mura, Boston, Mass. rmura@world.std.com