{"id":140672,"date":"2025-02-23T02:41:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T08:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=140672"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:54:41","slug":"female-slate-colored-dark-eyed-junco-and-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/02\/23\/female-slate-colored-dark-eyed-junco-and-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Slate-colored Dark-eyed Junco And Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to share this image of a female Slate-colored Dark-eyed Junco today because I couldn&#8217;t resist the soft, innocent look she had after the recent snow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-140669 size-full\" title=\"Female Slate-colored Dark-eyed Junco after an Arkansas snow\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dark-eyed-junco-slate-colored-female-snow-mia-mcpherson-3690.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dark-eyed-junco-slate-colored-female-snow-mia-mcpherson-3690.jpg\" alt=\"Female Slate-colored Dark-eyed Junco after an Arkansas snow, Sebastian County, Arkansas\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20900%20643%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dark-eyed-junco-slate-colored-female-snow-mia-mcpherson-3690-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dark-eyed-junco-slate-colored-female-snow-mia-mcpherson-3690-250x179.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dark-eyed-junco-slate-colored-female-snow-mia-mcpherson-3690-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dark-eyed-junco-slate-colored-female-snow-mia-mcpherson-3690-400x286.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dark-eyed-junco-slate-colored-female-snow-mia-mcpherson-3690-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dark-eyed-junco-slate-colored-female-snow-mia-mcpherson-3690-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dark-eyed-junco-slate-colored-female-snow-mia-mcpherson-3690-800x572.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/dark-eyed-junco-slate-colored-female-snow-mia-mcpherson-3690.jpg 900w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Female Slate-colored Dark-eyed Junco after an Arkansas snow \u2013 Canon R7, f8, 1\/800, ISO 800, +2.0 EV, Canon EF 100-400mm II at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As I was editing this junco photo, I realized that in just a few weeks, almost all of these juncos will be on the wing to their breeding grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Then I had to check eBird to see when I can expect my last juncos of the season here, it looks like that&#8217;ll be around the first part of April.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"56\" data-end=\"129\">I must have just barely missed them when I drove to Arkansas last spring.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"131\" data-end=\"234\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">It\u2019s going to take me a bit to learn the bird seasons here. That\u2019s okay though because I love to learn.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"131\" data-end=\"234\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">It&#8217;s good to know I have a few more weeks to photograph these sweet juncos. I&#8217;m always happy to have them in my viewfinder. It would be wonderful to take photos of them as the grasses start to green up and among the first spring wildflowers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"31\" data-end=\"100\">These &#8220;snowbirds&#8221; will always remind me of my mom, she loved them so.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"102\" data-end=\"326\">I wish I could share all the beautiful photos I&#8217;ve taken of them with my mom since they arrived last fall. I can almost hear how excited she would have been. She would probably have used one of my junco photos as her laptop background. Mom had a habit of doing that with my photos.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I\u2019ll be sad to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allaboutbirds.org\/guide\/Dark-eyed_Junco\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Dark-eyed Juncos<\/span><\/a> leave, but I know they\u2019ll be back in the fall, along with their soft calls and sweet faces.<\/p>\n<p>Life <em>is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/dark-eyed-junco-images\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> to view more of my Dark-eyed Junco photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to share this image of a female Slate-colored Dark-eyed Junco today because I couldn&#8217;t resist the soft, innocent look she had after the recent 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