BACKYARD BIRD ADVENTURES

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    • Heritage Shores Nature Preserve, NMB, SC
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    • Murrells Inlet, SC
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    • Nicaragua Trip
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  • Home
  • Our Birds!
    • Blackbird, Red-Winged 🆕
    • Bluebird, Eastern
    • Bunting, Painted
    • Cardinal, Northern
    • Catbird, Gray 🆕
    • Chickadee, Carolina
    • Cowbirds, Brown-Headed (Sigh....☹)
    • Crows (All)
    • Doves, Mourning
    • Eagle, Bald
    • Finch, House
    • Flicker, Northern
    • Flycatcher, Great-Crested
    • Geese, Canadian
    • Goldfinch, American
    • Gnatcatcher, Blue-Gray
    • Grackles (All)
    • Gulls. (All)
    • Hawk, Cooper's
    • Hawk, Red-Shouldered
    • Hawk, Red-Tailed
    • Hawk, Sharp-Shinned
    • Hummingbird, Ruby-Throated
    • Jay, Blue
    • Junco, Dark-Eyed
    • Kingbird, Eastern
    • Kinglet, Ruby-crowned
    • Kite, Mississippi 🆕
    • Kite, Swallow-Tailed 🆕
    • Mockingbird, Northern
    • Nuthatch, Brown-Headed
    • Nuthatch, White-breasted 🆕
    • Oriole, Baltimore, Not the team)
    • Oriole, Orchard 🆕
    • Osprey
    • Robin, American
    • Sapsucker, Yellow-Bellied
    • Starling, European
    • Sparrow, Chipping
    • Sparrow, House
    • Sparrow, White-throated
    • Stork, Wood
    • Titmouse, Tufted
    • Thrasher, Brown
    • Towhee, Eastern
    • Vultures, (All Types)
    • Warbler, Black and White
    • Warbler, Northern Parula
    • Warbler, Orange-crowned
    • Warbler, Pine
    • Warbler, Yellow-Rumped
    • Warbler, Yellow-Throated
    • Waxwing, Cedar
    • Woodpecker, Downy
    • Woodpecker, Pileated🆕
    • Woodpecker, Red-Bellied
    • Woodpecker Red-Headed
    • Wren, Carolina (South Carolina State Bird)
  • Getting Started Backyard Birdwatching
  • Bird Identification
  • Favorite Bird Stuff
  • News from the Nest
  • Birds Behaving Badly
  • Fantastic Fledges
  • Birding Field Trips
    • Egret Rookery in Socastee
    • Huntington Beach State Park, SC
    • Myrtle Beach State Park, SC
    • Heritage Shores Nature Preserve, NMB, SC
    • Kiawah River, Charleston, SC
    • Murrells Inlet, SC
    • Awendaw, SC Conservation Center & Center for Birds of Prey
    • Nicaragua Trip
    • Kiawah Island, SC
    • Topsail Island, NC
    • Caribbean and South Pacific
    • Briarcliff Acres, North Myrtle Beach, SC
    • Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge, Conway, SC
    • Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve, Myrtle Beach, SC
    • Everglades, Florida
    • Central Park, NY
  • About Us
  • FIND THE BIRD
  • UFFO
  • Feeder Cam Recordings
  • Why Do Birds Matter?
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eastern Towhee

Pipilo erythrophthalmus

2 Samuel 7:22,  Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

MALE EASTERN TOWHEE
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A Towhee first came to our backyard on June 23, 2018.  I snapped a couple of very bad pics with my camera phone (see below).  I looked diligently in 2019 and never saw one come.  In late February 2020, one finally returned and has come periodically since.  Additionally, Abby saw a female below the balcony and snapped a few pictures. At first she did not come to the feeder.  Later she would come every couple days.    The last week of May, both the male and female started coming daily and staying longer.  The male has the black head and the female has the brown head but both female and male have the rust colored undercarriage.  
FEMALE EASTERN TOWHEE
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June 2018:
My first pictures taken with  camera phone in 2018.   Only the male came at that time.  He returned with a mate in 2020 .

 ALL PICTURES ON THIS SITE WERE TAKEN ONLY BY ABBY, CJ OR ME.  WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE PHOTOS ON THE BIRDING FIELD TRIP PAGE, ALL PICTURES HAVE ALL BEEN TAKEN IN OUR URBAN BACKYARD/TREES, OR IN THE SKY AND TREES ABOVE OUR HOUSE/NEIGHBORHOOD FROM 2018 TO THE PRESENT.  WE ARE USUALLY BIRDING EVERYDAY BUT ARE ALSO USUALLY BEHIND UPLOADING PICTURES.

 IF YOU WOULD LIKE INFORMATION ABOUT A SPECIFIC PICTURE PLEASE EMAIL US.   COGENTLY, IF WE HAVE ERRONEOUSLY MISLABELED A PICTURE PLEASE BRING IT TO OUR ATTENTION.