Yep. The “Snows” know all right. Snowbirds, that is, and they know when it’s time to pack their little bags and fly away for the summer. But so far, they haven’t felt the urge.
My little flock of 9 snowbirds, Dark-eyed Juncos to be exact, are still picking up the millet seeds that I scatter especially for them.
My snowbirds generally arrive in November, chased down from the north by cold weather, but they stick around until it’s time for them to fly back to Canada where they will breed. Why Canada? Probably because they have a wealth of small seeds and insects up there during the summer.
Sometime during this month, I’ll go to feed them, and they won’t be there. It will have been time to leave. But it’s not time yet. Only the “Snows” know when.