Drink Your Tea, Sings the Eastern Towhee

A songbird sang sweetly as I approached the savanna overlooking the valley of Bear Creek below. It sounded like “drink your tea.” Turning the corner, the bird, perched on a branch, displayed its black, rufous, and white feathers.

I had never seen this species of bird before, at least as far as I recall. But the Merlin Bird ID mobile app helped me quickly identify it by size and color as I watched and listened. It was a male Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus).

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