It was recently learned that a Spotted Towhee has been coming to a back yard of a house on Park Point in Duluth for about a week. Chuck Krulas, Jeff Stephenson and others saw the bird between 4:00 and 4:15 Sunday afternoon and confirmed the ID. Several of us returned this morning, but it was not seen while we were there between 7:00 and 9:30.
The address is 1320 Minnesota Ave, and the homeowner told us this morning she has no problem with birders coming to look for it under the following conditions: - Park on the street, and walk along the fence on the south side of her house only as far as her back deck until you can see the back yard; stay next to the fence and do not walk on or along the driveway to south of her house which is on neighboring property; - Do not walk down the driveway to the north of her house which leads to another neighbor's property; - Watch for the towhee as it scratches/feeds on the ground; it apparently does not come to any of her feeders, and there seems to be no particular time of day when it is seen. Kim Eckert