Backyard Birds: Male Spotted Towhee

Photographer Carl Dinse says, "I was taking photos of a smoke filled sunset on the Edmonds water front last weekend when I came across a very interesting looking bird hopping around in the brush."

Male Spotted Towhee.  Photo by Carl Dinse.

Although it looks like a bird put together by committee, our bird expert, Christine Southwick, says that "It's a Male Spotted Towhee. It looks like he is probably still molting his body feathers. Either that, or he just took a bath somewhere and the feathers aren't laying right."