Why do the Juncos go under the house?

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The snow is thin and light and perfect for showing the tracks of hopping song birds. Bird crop circles.  Why the interest in these small stumps?  (view from our upper deck) The Juncos are a mystery.  They like to go under our house.   They even fly in, zooming under the window, and their footprints tell a story of great interest in the space under our house.Why?  We have only two theories.  That they are getting grit from the bare dirt under the house for their little bird gizzards, or that they are taking seeds under there with them, to eat them where they are not standing in the snow.  And why just the Juncos?Meanwhile in the GH, work has started on the dirt bath bale.  They are secretive about it though, almost as though they think they're being naughty, and I haven't caught anyone in the act.Except this guinea.  Just leaving!  So it might be the guineas.But it's getting hollowed out.

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