Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Spotted Towhee Spotted

Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus)

My most exciting backyard visitor this spring - a male Spotted Towhee!  He stayed for about 3 days, hopping around in true towhee-style in the thick brush.  Most of the time he foraged on the ground under our seed block, mixing right in with the White-crowned Sparrows.  But my resident Abert's Towhees were not as thrilled as I to see their colorful cousin and chased him away at every turn.  I tried to tell them not to be so inhospitable to their visiting relative, but the Abert's just wouldn't listen.




4 comments:

  1. Very nice! Spotteds are beautiful birds and are none to common around the city. What a compliment to your yard : )

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  2. It doesn't look like weeds to me, but if that is what it takes to attract a Spotted Towhee then you talked me into it. I am not going to pull my weeds.

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  3. Great pics of a lovely bird. Thanks for the post.

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