Well…I finally have some new birds on the window feeder and I had to look them up on the internet to figure out what they are…it appears that they are a small sparrow species called a dark eyed juncoe…I guessed that they were juncoes and the only place I would have gotten that information was in 3rd grade where I had a teacher, Miss O’Beirn, who was a bird watcher and passed that on to the class..I even went bird watching with her and a couple of classmates early on a Saturday morning when we piled into her 59 Ford and went out into the fields armed with binoculars and birdcalls to see what we could identify….I got part of my love of science from this grey haired, 60ish woman and I can still see her face this 60 years later…teachers are important and I wish people would appreciate them more than they do….oh, and juncoes are a lot more fun than the titmouses that were here earlier….they act a lot like the brown sparrows I had in GR…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well…I finally have some new birds on the window feeder and I had to look them up on the internet to figure out what they are…it appears that they are a small sparrow species called a dark eyed juncoe…I guessed that they were juncoes and the only place I would have gotten that information was … Continue reading New birds….<\/span>