Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon Race)

Description:

Black and gray bird with a dark head and wings. The breast is gray/brown and long tail feathers are white. Oregon Junco: "These have a blackish-gray head and breast with a brown back and wings and reddish flanks, tending toward duller and paler plumage in the inland and southern parts of its range. There is an unresolved debate whether this large and distinct group is not better treated as a full species." - Wikipedia

Habitat:

Various trees at Chateau Montelena winery. "This is the most common form in the west, found in the Pacific coast mountains from southeastern Alaska to extreme northern Baja California, wintering to the Great Plains and northern Sonora. " - Wikipedia

Notes:

"One of the most abundant forest birds of North America, you’ll see juncos on woodland walks as well as in flocks at your feeders or on the ground beneath them." - All About Birds