towhees

I've had evening grosbeaks in migration, hoary redpolls driven down from the arctic during harsh winters, Rufous-sided towhees tossing aside leaves like crazy people, in search of what I'm not entirely sure.

This App Is for the Birds Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

My spring morning quiet, sitting under my orange and lemon trees in my lawn chair, has flown off with the flustered sparrows and towhees.

The Breakfast Tree Michael Smith 2012

We move to the dining room, a welcoming space with a fireplace and a view through sliding doors of the deck and seed and nectar feeders ablur with the wings of purple finches, titmice, orioles, towhees, grosbeaks, and hummingbirds.

Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

There will be some more winter visitors, juncoes, towhees and others along with several woodpeckers.

Birds Of Fall « Fairegarden 2009

I want to laugh at the antics of the towhees, scratching for dinner in the scrub oak.

Changes in Latitude... 2006

His Web site, Californiachaparral. com, celebrates its diverse plant life, seasonal ponds that gleam like "liquid sapphires" and birdlife that includes bushtits and towhees.

Fires Turn Up Heat 2007

Cardinals, rufus-sided towhees and yellow-rumped warblers.

Devlin’s Light Mariah Stewart 1997

More sombre hued seed-eaters which live their lives in the Park are towhees, swamp, song, field, and chipping sparrows.

The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

One day I was listening to a concert given by a company of towhees and cardinals, which were sitting in the trees at the lower border of the woodland.

Our Bird Comrades 1896

A favorite roosting place for the sparrows, towhees, juncos, and even the robins, was in some thickets by the roadside.

Our Bird Comrades 1896