Team Pelfrey Seeks To Extend Star Mazda Series Lead In Indianapolis - PaddockTalk
24 May 2012, 5:10 pm
Team Pelfrey also leads the Teams Championship by a margin of 119-108 over juncos Racing. Hawksworth, 21, from Bradford, England, will be taking part in his very first oval race but displayed good speed during a recent test on the tricky 0.686-mile ...

Gustavo Yacaman takes pole position for Indy Lights race at Indianapolis - Autosport Online
24 May 2012, 3:44 pm
Oli Webb Schmidt 185.288mph 15. Anders Krohn Bryan Herta 184.845mph 16. Joao Horto juncos 184.754mph 17. Mike Larrison Belardi 184.735mph 18. Chase Austin Bryan Herta 184.678mph 19. Juan Pablo Garcia Jeffrey Mark 184.494mph

A bird-friendly yard - Douglas Budget
24 May 2012, 12:38 pm
Flowers which go to seed in the fall draw dark-eyed juncos, white crowned sparrows, gold finches, house finches and other seed eaters during fall, winter and early spring. Conifers seem to draw the friendly chickadee who can be a year round resident.

Birdathon bonanza of May 2012 - Berkshire Eagle
23 May 2012, 11:02 pm
The kestrel hovers over a field by Field Farm. juncos flitter under the shrubs atop Mt. Greylock. The constantly singing winter wren on October Mountain is a nice find. The hunter entering the woods ahead of us was not. In Clarksburg State ...

Yacaman Scores First Pole with Firestone Freedom 100 Pole at Indy - Who Won
23 May 2012, 6:58 pm
I feel pretty good right now. We have a really fast car. Tomorrow, the race is going to be good." CHASE AUSTIN (No. 87 juncos Racing): "The driver didn't do so well. They gave me a pretty good car. My teammate has the same setup, so hopefully he can do a ...

Migrating shorebirds and songbirds have arrived in the Interior - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
17 May 2012, 12:14 am
Chickadees and woodpeckers are paired up and nesting. American robins and dark-eyed juncos have begun building their nests. Gray jays should have young fledges by now, while their cousins, black-billed magpies, have just begun nesting. Both bank and cliff ...

What 's Been Happening - Minneapolis Star Tribune
14 May 2012, 3:49 pm
This puzzles me for the third straight year.. We had a flock of White-throated Sparrows and a White-Crowned Sparrow along with the Dark-eyed juncos this winter. Our normal resident birds include Red-tailed Hawk, Common Crow, American Cardinal ...

Tender memorial of two royal old Alaskans from Eagle - Alaska Dispatch
14 May 2012, 1:33 pm
In April, a friend drove the weak but determined Vicki back to Eagle. Two days later she called me, giddy with delight at her reunion with her half-tame squirrel, the lively juncos, the camp robbers that ate from her hand. I had often witnessed this very ...

Column: Migratory Bird Day celebration is Saturday at the Highlands Center - Daily Courier
9 May 2012, 11:11 pm
Examples of winter residents are ruby-crowned kinglets, yellow-rumped warblers, white-crowned sparrows and dark-eyed juncos. Summer: Summer residents are migratory species that return to the Prescott area in April and May from their winter range ...

Wild Side : Identifying sparrows is a challenge even for veteran birders - Martha's Vineyard Times
8 May 2012, 6:55 pm
And in the fall and winter, the sheer diversity of sparrows on the Island challenges even a capable birder: almost two dozen species of sparrows grace the Vineyard checklist (if you count juncos and towhees, which are really just fancy sparrows).