Showing posts with label Spotted Towhee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spotted Towhee. Show all posts
Friday, January 9, 2026

It's Towhee Time

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Day 89: Spotted Towhees (aka Rufous-sided Towhees) always look like they've either had too much caffeine or that they're just on the...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Become A Better Birder

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Day 93: The most important thing you can learn if you want to be a better birder is what to observe. Note that I do not say, "what to l...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Snowbirds

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Day 90: The epithet "snowbirds" has always intrigued me. It is used quite differently in different environments. To some, it means...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Snow Birds

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Day 136: The term "snow birds" has been a source of confusion for me for many years because when I first heard it, the speaker was...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Mr. Towhee

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Day 128: If the level of activity in my yard is a reliable indicator (and I suspect it is), the weather forecast for the latter part of next...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Spotted Towhee

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Day 47: Although Spotted Towhees are resident in my yard year-'round, nothing brings them out of hiding like a snowfall. And such busy l...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

Mad-Eye Towhee

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Day 39: I have had a long-term association with birds both tame and wild, and have witnessed various degrees of intelligence in them as it i...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Spotted Towhee, Pipilo Maculatus

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Day 179: Once known as "Rufous-sided Towhee" here in the Pacific Northwest and considered to be one and the same with the easte...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Toe-Tau-Too-Ee

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Day 45: However you pronounce their name, Spotted Towhees have to be one of the goofiest-looking birds in anybody's back yard. I gre...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

There's Always One

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Day 166: There's always one. Every spring, I'll have at least one Towhee whose tailfeathers have gone missing all at once. Now wh...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Enough Already!

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Day 121: "Enough already!" Towhees' red eyes always make them look a little daft, but a foot of new snow is enough to push ...
Monday, February 4, 2019

Shelter In Place

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Day 114: Following Mr. Towhee's advice, I am sheltering in place, not even going out for groceries although I discovered yesterday th...
Monday, December 24, 2018

Noel Of Small Birds

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Day 72: During the years when I used to play Celtic harp and perform professionally, I wrote much of my own material. Most of it was inst...
Friday, December 7, 2018

Young Towhee

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Day 55: The cold weather has brought the Spotted Towhees out by the dozen. Although I see them here in the summer occasionally, I think o...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Winter Residents

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Day 130: One of my most reliable winter birds is good old Spotted Towhee, aka Rufous-Sided Towhee (Pipilo maculatus), but exactly how hi...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Such A Puzzle!

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Day 46: When the contorted filbert is fully leafed out, it provides excellent habitat for the assortment of bird species which come to m...
Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Catching The Red-Eye

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Day 89: "Catching the red-eye" isn't easy! Spotted (Rufous-Sided) Towhee is a ground-feeder, and a hoppy scratcher who is ...
Friday, November 27, 2015

Towhee Time

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Day 45: It's Towhee season! When the weather turns cold, I can always count on an influx of Spotted (formerly Rufous-Sided) Towhees a...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Catching The Red-Eye

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Day 52: Spotted Towhee (aka Rufous-Sided Towhee, Pipilo maculatus) is a twitchy little fellow. He flicks his tail almost constantly, d...