Buntings

14 years ago

This is my first post. This spring, I was lucky enough to get the Indigo Bunting, Painted Bunting and Lazuli Bunting all on one of my feeeders at the same time.

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dzyg
14 years ago
OMG that is awesome!! Lucky you! We have the Indigo Bunting around here but not the other two.

Donna
organic_bassetlvr
14 years ago
birdguy,
Ditto what Donna said! That is a fabulous pic. Where are you located? And where did you get that feeder, I really like it. Please post more pics
Susan
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I am thrilled! I haven't had a bird feeder in years, but my mother was a birder and we always had feeders growing up. In all those years, we never saw any of the buntings. So this year I finally decide to set out a feeder after seeing my first ever indigo bunting sitting in the grass in my yard a few weeks ago. Now, only a week later, I have up to 11! male indigos in my yard at once on a daily basis. At one point last weekend, they were joined by over 100! goldfinches, and I finally hit the birding jackpot---a male/female pair of painted buntings has been coming every day! Ever since seeing the picture of a painted in the Peterson book, it was my birding holy grail to see one. A few days ago I also saw my first Scarlet Tanager. I was absolutely shocked at how insanely bright orange red this bird was. Almost like a flying traffic cone, and it was set off beautifully by the black wings. I sure hope he comes back. It seems like every day I get a new species. Purple finch, cardinal, blue jay, mourning dove, yellow bellied sapsucker, blue grosbeak. My grandmother, who is also an avid birder for decades tells me the next one I should hope for is a Baltimore Oriole. At this rate, it seems quite likely.
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I swear, catherine, if I ever see an Indigo Bunting I will surely faint! I'm in SE Michigan and a neighbor pointed one out to me many years ago but it flew away after I got a very slight look. Such a nice picture you took!
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birdguy
Original Author
14 years ago
That feeder is a Gardner/Homestead Party Feeder. I shoot for a lot of birdfeeder manufacturers. This is a Summer Tanager pic I took Saturday. If you want to see more of my pics, you should visit the Roy Neher WIldlife page on my website at RNWPHOTO.NET. Not meaning to sound commercial, I just have a lot of pics there.

Here is a link that might be useful: {{!gwi}}
birdguy
Original Author
14 years ago
For the life of me, I haven't figured out how to add a pic to my mesage yet. Any help would be appreciated.
prairie_love
14 years ago
Oh MY! How unbelievably beautiful is that? I am jealous, jealous, jealous!

Thanks for sharing, they are beauties!
mc_hudd
14 years ago
Those are beautiful birds!!! I just started having an IB come up w/ my GoldFinches to eat... Hoping he'll tell the others. :) I've never seen the multi-colored one around here (MO), not sure if we have those, but wish we did! This is my first year bird watching & I'm loving it, just hope more varieties show up.

Birdguy~ I go to tinypic.com & upload my photo there & resize to message board size. Then when it's uploaded, copy the "HTML for Websites" line & paste directly into your message. Hope this helps.

~Shannon
rachel_frome_ky
14 years ago
Love the rare Buntings..amazing to see them all at one feeder

I upload my photos to Picasa Web Albums, copy the embed link at any of the four size choices, copy/paste it to my posts, and the html shows up as a photo in the preview.

Maybe you could fill out your MyPage so we can see where you live, what type of camera equipment you use
gardenlover25
14 years ago
Oh so Lovely! Can't wait to see more photos.
janie_may
14 years ago
Great photos!

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