Bird Watching: Show Me Your Feeders Pt. 4, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
Today was sunny! Previously .... four days of damp dreary weather until today. I went out and "stirred up" the seeds in the flat feeder and the female Bunting, female Cardinal, and squirrels showed up! (I now have 2 squirrels that are coming around.) I was just getting ready to put my camera up for the day and my eye caught sight of something that flew over to the feeder. The sun was going down and it was shaded at the feeder, but I cropped the photo to better see what it was ..... And GUESS WHAT???? It was the male Painted Bunting!!! WOWEE! He is really colorful!!! Quite a handsome gent! This photo isn't very good because it was shaded and I don't have a really good zoom lens, but you can SEE him! Love the blue head! First time I have ever seen one that close. Looks like a parrot that escaped from someone's home. LOL!