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I have seen them with brown eyes and red eyes. I looked this one up on the internet since it wasn't in my National Audubon Society Field Guide To North American Birds and they called it the Spotted Towhee. I know KC probably knows the information on all these so maybe she can better explain it...
This might be best of that session. I have more on my camera including this morning, great light. Love these birds fear a couple cats, including a bobcat I saw this evening. They're badass.
To answer your question, admin., the towhee is larger than the sparrows, in this shot golden-crowned, but they share the same family, emperizine, so they are related. While the sparrows are easy to photograph, the towhee avoids the camera and is quite adept at hiding in the thickets.
A pair of spotted towhees have been hanging out with about 25 sparrows of various type for the past few weeks near my home in the foothills of Sierra Nevada in Mariposa, Calif.
Taken at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline at about 13m.
First time I saw and photographed one of these I thought, "what a bland little bird"...all grey, no spots, rather clay-like in appearance. But like most "critters," they grow on me after photographing them...
This was one of the many backyard birds that came to the feeder that we have at work. Sometimes I spend my lunch sitting in my car just to capture the variety of birds at work.