Port Townsend WA: we have a pair of Towhees that have been here a long
time; I think they are the same couple that were here last summer and
spring. Obviously a mated pair, but they have yet to bring their kids to
visit...
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On 2020-06-23 10:37, Marcy D'Addio wrote:

> I believe I have 2 juvenile Pine Siskins at my feeder in Redmond, WA.

> I don't recall seeing them before. And our solitary juv Spotted

> Towhee has been around for a week.

> -Marcy D'Addio

> Redmond, WA

>

> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 10:09 AM pan <panmail at mailfence.com> wrote:

>

>> 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

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