Check Out The Painted Buntings At The Bird Feeder

Bird Feeder

Click the link at the bottom to see some great photos of the Painted Bunting.

While Blue Jays, Northern Cardinals, and American Goldfinches will all show up at bird feeders here in the northeast and share their brilliant blue, red, and yellow visages, we have no bird at our feeders to compare to the Painted Bunting. While I have mentioned their technicolor dreamcoats before it never hurts to mention again that a bird made of blue, yellow, red and green is absurd and proof that nature is awesome.

Painted Buntings at the Bird Feeder

Winter Birds Need Food And Water

Bird Feeder

Paul set up the camera, and the "gee whiz" moment occurred. They were American goldfinches, and they were landing next to, grabbing onto, and sometimes hanging upside down from sweetgum-balls on the trees, busily extracting tiny seeds, one at a time.

Master Naturalists: Winter birds need food, water to survive