Tuesday, March 24, 2009

A Visit from an Eastern Towhee

The Eastern Towhee is a large sparrow with black upperparts, hood and upper breast, rufous flanks, and white underparts. Wings are black with white markings, and tail is long and black with white corners. The Eastern Towhee has red eyes across most of its range, but the towhees in Florida and extreme southern Georgia have pale straw-colored eyes.After hopping around in my Jasmine this one decided to take a bath in my neighbor's birdbath.
He appeared to really enjoy himself and seemed oblivious to the female Cowbird taking a drink from his bath.

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