Summertime is falling down, winter is closing in. The juncos — what Audubon called snow-birds — will be back soon.

“We think of harbingers of spring,” said Ken Elkins, director of education at Audubon Connecticut’s Bent of the River nature center in Southbury. “Juncos are harbingers of winter.”

“When I see them, I think ‘the fall migration is over,’” said Patrick Comins, president of the Connecticut Audubon Society.

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