This is a juvenile junco, noit looking a lot like mom or dad. But this one does share the pale beak and white outer tail feathers that distinguish the parents. By winter all this indistinct coloring and streaking will be replaced. Like other sparrows, the juncoi prefers to feed on the ground.
Just three feet up the finches crowd around a hanging feeder, pushing and nudging, until finally the less aggressive or more stolid birds feed like juncos.
Above: American Goldfinch and House Finch, juncoing up the sunflower chips on our driveway.
We saw the black domestic rabbit today, first time in a few weeks. In a neighbor's front yard. Another neighbor here in South Salem reports seeing momma peafowl and FOUR YOUNG in our neighborhood. Meanwhile the turkeys seemed toi have moved on, unseen in August.
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