Photo Submission
Submitted By
Jonquele Jones
Fort Worth, TX, USA
Description
In spite of 40 years in Texas, I had never seen Painted Buntings up close until I made a road trip to the Hill Country in April 2018. A week later a male showed up at my feeder. I was completely gob-smacked. It came by periodically throughout the summer usually in the afternoons when it was very quiet, and if I hadn’t mowed the grass too closely. It took months to get a shot in sunlight. My spirits lifted with each visit.
One extremely hot August afternoon, a female showed up accompanied by this same male. Then two more males arrived. That was the last I saw the males. For the rest of August, a group of females and immatures took up residence before heading south in September.
Counting all those feathered blessings.
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Species: Painted Bunting