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  1. 01-20-2022, 01:45 PM #1
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    Default Eastern Towhee

    I can't remember the last time I saw one. They used to be everywhere.

    Anybody else noticed this?

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  2. 01-20-2022, 01:49 PM #2
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    That's a bird he's asking about, a sparrow
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    I saw a good many this past weekend. I even thought it was odd of how many I saw. Around field edges.
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    Plenty of them in Richland, Fairfield, and York counties....haven't noticed an influx.

    The robins and snow birds showed up last week around me though.
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    I have a few of them on my place in Gilbert. Mainly see them around the field edges.


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    See them a lot at the house in East Columbia and all around the ponds in Eastover.
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    I know they will beat the crap out of a mirror if they find one. Come to think of it, I have not seen one in several years. MG
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    See them regularly in the upstate.
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    I see them, but started noticing that they aren't as plentiful in the areas I frequent about the same time (early 90's) we realized the crow migration was gone, the robin migration had become a shell of what it was and mallards were no longer coming...
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    I occasionally see them at my bird feeder and hear them in the trees here in Chapin. Had one nest in a Windmill palm this past Spring too. Very cool birds.
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    I started giving them a pass, not much meat on em
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    They are all over my feeder in Greenville.
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    They are all over my yard in the mid summer.

    Seem to stay in the thick brush.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BOGSTER View Post
    They are all over my yard in the mid summer.

    Seem to stay in the thick brush.
    Like thrashers, .....which I haven't seen one of them in a while.

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    Johnson says the robins have declined to a threatened population level
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    Between the towhees and the armadillos I swore off deer hunting in Alabama. Noisy bastards the both of them.
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    I have placed them on my “not so concerned” list in the past few years.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tater View Post
    Between the towhees and the armadillos I swore off deer hunting in Alabama. Noisy bastards the both of them.
    I used to have that problem with Blue Jays. Not anymore.

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