Subject: [Tweeters] bird movement now (?)
Date: Tue Jun 23 10:08:59 PDT 2020
From: pan - panmail at mailfence.com

Tweets,

My urban Seattle yard has only had one towhee I know of, for a few moments in passing. So just now, I was surprised to hear a high buzzing I didn't know, then see the source: a juvenile Spotted Towhee, all brown and mottley, barely recognizable save for the long tail with white spots when it flew a bit. They do not breed in this neighborhood, though probably in Volunteer Park for or five blocks away. Perhaps now is a good time for a youngster of a resident species barely grown to leave its family to find its own spot (?). On reflection, I do see a lot of young robins moving about in late spring/early summer, not all from known local pairs, but they have more complicated seasonal movements. Birds of the World on line does say immature towhees stay on and near parents' territories for awhile (sounds like a matter of weeks), then disappear, but nothing much more.

23 July, 2020,

Alan Grenon
Seattle