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She provides shelter, nesting materials, and food to myriad juncos, black-capped chickadees, chestnut-backed chickadees, nuthatches, Bewick’s wrens, towhees, all our native woodpeckers, various migratory birds, pollinators, and so many other wildlife.

In early April, evergreen Arctostaphylos ‘White lanterns’ was blooming, and a family of juncos was nesting in his cotinus bush.

They also recognized acorn woodpeckers, a California towhee, dozens of turkey vultures circling overhead, a dark-eyed junco, a mockingbird, an Anna’s hummingbird and a black phoebe.

Along with juncos, they define winter under our feeders, Strassmann said.

“I love it when they’re all singing,” he said, smiling and scanning branches where wrens and juncos darted.