We’d heard towhees here before, but only saw them in person for the first time that week — a chubby little male and female, scrummaging around in the junipers.
Reference photo was from Wikimedia, because my quick phone pic of the towhees we actually saw was a forever photo of blurry shrubbery.
Homemade inks used are: sumac berries, horsetail, avocado pits, wild grape, grapevine charcoal. Plus a grey/brown colour that’s the current state of the leftover inks I mix together and save.