[mou] Spotted Towhee still present, Washington County
Bob Dunlap
rmdbird@mn.rr.com
Sun, 10 Aug 2003 20:36:52 -0500
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This evening my dad and I went to search for the Spotted Towhee being =
seen at the Grey Cloud Dunes SNA in Washington County. Upon hiking down =
the bluff toward the railroad tracks, there were two or three towhees =
singing and calling. One of the towhee songs had a distinctly drier =
quality and sounded a bit faster than the others, so we followed this =
song back to a clump of trees where the song was coming from. There was =
an Eastern singing very close to this other bird, so we had close =
comparisons with the two songs. The Spotted's song sounded faster than =
and not as sweet as the Eastern's. Eventually the Spotted Towhee flew =
up from the understory and gave us brief but positive looks. In flight, =
the white spotting on the bird's back was difficult to see, but it was =
obvious that the primaries were black, lacking the Eastern's large white =
primary patch. I agree that this bird fits more closely to the NW =
subspecies of the Spotted Towhee.
-Bob Dunlap, Carver County
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