Strike a Pose

 

This lovely towhee was bopping around the backyard--they are VERY fast and hard to photograph, but he/she seemed to be posing for me. 

I hope that it is the same bird seen above. I think this is just a crazy molt where this poor bird lost all of its face feathers at the same time; I so hope that it doesn't have some sort of disease. (I do think it's a molt--the bird looks rather bedraggled in general...)