Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus)
Today we walked through Flower Valley Park and then along Rock Creek to Lake Frank. On the Rock Creek trail we heard and then saw this eastern towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus). We hear them quite often but don’t usually get to see them, much less when they are so openly visible and close. When we got to Lake Frank we saw a family of wood ducks (Aix sponsa) with quite a few ducklings, an osprey (Pandion haliaetus), and the quite a few solitary sandpipers (Tringa solitaria). It was very humid and warm, but as usual, we were glad to get out into the woods.