I only heard ours, it was singing and therefore presumably male. I haven't
heard it again since.

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Jane Stein <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Always possible some group of them got blown in the "wrong" direction.
> I've been a bit puzzled here not to see one because there's pretty good
> Towhee habitat, lots of thickets and brambles and the like with a long
> stretch of forest edge.
>
> Was yours male or female?  Is it still hanging out with you?
>
> What put me off-balance with this one is that it was a female, which I
> wouldn't expect to see before a male had shown itself.  I now also have
> just today the first female Rose-Breasted Grosbeak of the year that
> apparently blew in overnight in the same bunch with the female Towhee and
> the White-Crowns.  Hmmmm.
>
> Jane
> (Shoreham)
>
> On 5/9/2016 1:37 PM, Miriam Lawrence wrote:
>
>> We also had the first Towhee ever on our property a couple of days ago -
>> also in Addison County (northern).  Interesting. I wonder if there's a
>> glut
>> of them, or if they're doing something different than usual this year?
>>
>> -Miriam Lawrence
>> Monkton
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Jane Stein <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Woke up this morning to see the two Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks on the
>>>> ground
>>>>
>>>>> under the feeder plus 10 to 12 White-Crowned Sparrows and an
>>>>> odd-looking
>>>>> Grosbeak-sized bird with them that my as yet uncaffeinated brain
>>>>> finally
>>>>> recognized as a female Towhee a split second before the whole bunch
>>>>> flushed.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've not had a Towhee here in the 10 years I've been here and haven't
>>>>> laid
>>>>> eyes on one anywhere else in that time, so I was a bit slow on the
>>>>> uptake,
>>>>> and pre-coffee, I might have been hallucinating.  Haven't caught sight
>>>>> of
>>>>> it since then so far.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jane
>>>>> Shoreham
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>


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