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Friday, September 16, 2011

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."


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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2011 at 12:01 PM

    Nice photo! Maybe Chris Southwick could write a "For the Birds" on this. It would be good to know how to attract such a cool little bird.

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  2. DKHSeptember 17, 2011 at 12:15 AM

    We are in luck - Christine did a For the Birds on the Spotted Towhee early this year: http://www.shorelineareanews.com/2011/02/for-birds-spotted-towhee.html

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