These photos were taken in the yard on January 6, 2019.  This first bird is a Dark-eyed junco, Oregon race.  If you look at the face carefully, you can see that the area around the eye is composed of white feathers, indicating that this bird is leucistic.  There are also faint traces of white feathers in a few isolated areas around the bird’s head.

This junco, seen on the same day, appears to have a problem with feathers around the eye.  If you again look closely, you can see that the area around the eye is denuded, but you can see a few white feathers near the bottom front of the eye.

There didn’t seem to be any differences in behavior between these juncos and others in the yard, and the juncos didn’t seem to exhibit any vision problems.  So is this a case of leucitism or possibly some disease passed among juncos?

And, while I’m on the subject of juncos, here’s another photo of our single Slate-colored junco.

A male House finch.  I observed three males in the yard this (1/8/2019) afternoon.

Our only adult White-crowned sparrow.

A magnificent male Spotted towhee who has a partner/mate that also frequents the yard.

One of the six American goldfinches that were in our yard this past weekend.  These have been relative rare birds in our yard during past winters.

And finally, a couple of more photos of what is probably the same Yellow-rumped warbler (Audubon’s race), one of several that we’ve had in the yard for the past month or so, including for the Christmas Bird Count.