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It is official. I saw my first Junco today. That means that the winter season has begun. As you may know, Juncos spend the summer in the great north woods or in Canada. Somehow they sense the onset of colder winter temperatures and then migrate south to Westchester where they think the winter is almost balmy. Amazingly they determine the coming change in weather without the use of Doppler Radar or satellite imagery.

Of course the poor Junco I saw today did not realize that a combined hurricane–Nor’easter will soon be blasting thru the area. That may come as a surprise.