I have never seen this bird before yesterday. It showed up on the deck railing and sat there for me to photograph without a problem. If I am not too confused, it is a gray headed dark eyed junco. The only ones I have seen in the back yard was the dark headed one. If I am wrong, someone please correct me.
I will leave it to my viewers to tell me otherwise on the identity. I even thought it could be a female version of one that I don’t know. It is a nice looking bird. I did also find out the juices are cousins of the sparrows.
As I did more research it is a junco. The yellowish legs with black feet is consistent. One photo posting showed the juncos with so many variations. It just seems strange that we only have see the dark headed one here for all these years.
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He is a handsome little guy. I am excited to see if eastern bluebirds make their nests in our new birdhouses.
Very interesting. Some of the feathers look almost blue up around its 'collar" area. We have a lot of Juncos here, but like you, we've only had the black-headed ones. Thank you for sharing.
Very sweet bird and a great photo.
Maybe the female.
We also have different male sparrows and finches too.
In general, females have poorer pumage than males, except for goldfinches and our little robins.
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