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This Morning Outside

by Diane Porter

April 9, 2014
Birdwatching Dot Com
Fairfield, Iowa

A female eastern towhee is brown wherever the male is black. One showed up this morning under my hanging bird feeders.

Towhees like to eat on the ground, and she was not into clinging to a feeder that was swinging in the wind. Instead, she stood below the feeders and cocked her head to watch for the goldfinches and chickadees who might be about to knock down stray bits of food.

Female Eastern Towhee
© 2014 Diane Porter

—Diane Porter

Chickadee on hand

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