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| Junco hops |
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| Junco hopway |
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| Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis |
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| Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus |
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| male House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus |
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| Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco Junco hyemalis |
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| Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco Junco hyemalis |
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| Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco Junco hyemalis |
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| White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis |
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| American Goldfinch Spinus
tristis eye detail |
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| House Finch Haemorhous
mexicanus eye detail |
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| American Goldfinch Spinus tristis |
And we're still at it. Taking advantage of balmy -15 weather, Dan and I hit up the Jardin Botanique in Montreal's east end - the same spot where we saw Pine Grosbeaks in February of 2013. No such luck this time, but there was a good selection of 'old friends' around the feeders.
My favourite moment was a close encounter with impossibly-rotund Slate-colored Juncos eating ice and snow from tree limbs - is that snow sweeter than ground snow? Also noteworthy were two new feeder stations that were essentially unused, due to being set up far from cover like the extensive bushes found at the busier feeders. We noticed both an American Goldfinch and a House Finch that appeared to have one eye permanently closed. With recent temperatures as cold as -35 at night with windchill, are the birds just closing their eyes because they're cold, or have the eyes been damaged by the cold or some illness?
American Crow - 1
Black-capped Chickadee - 45+
White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
Northern Cardinal - 1 male
Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco - 25+
House Sparrow - 30 regulars in front of my place in NDG
American Goldfinch - 12
House Finch - 9
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