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the creek on Oct. 11.” With a few words, Grimsley painted a vivid word picture of the gentle sparrow in its dense natural habitat of vines and shrubs.
Ann Markham, of Sperryville, wrote a charming note. “I saw my first Slate-colored Junco yesterday, Friday, Oct. 16 at noon at one of my bird feeders. (He was having lunch too.) I have always felt that having seen my first Junco of the season, can cold weather and winter be far behind?” Markham opened her letter with, “I’m not a true ‘bird watcher’ but I do watch birds for my own enjoyment.” The writer sounds mighty “true” to me.
A card from D.L.' Jones “...just off South Poe’s Road (Route 637)...halfway between Flint Hill and Amissville,” noted a sighting of a lone white-throat on Oct. 16 and a flock of Juncos on Oct. 20. Mary Schwab of Lovettsville also noted Juncos on Oct. 20.
Jean Busby of Catlett wrote of seeing Juncos on Sunday, Oct. 19. Sherred Leslie Guille of “...southern Fauquier County, just off U.S. 17, midway between Morrisville and Sumerduck,” reported a Junco on the same date, Oct. 19.
“Just reporting in,” write Jeannie Lea Knight of Sunrise Farm near Broad Run. She continued, “I saw our first White-throated Sparrow and our first Junco (damn) at 6:30
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