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Testing the Waters (100)
marhowie
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 5716 W: 1221 N: 10549]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (34439) | Painted Bunting male (passerina ciris).
Here you see this male "testing" the water, looking for a place to land. He is basically hovering in place.
I was lucky the first day they arrived. The sun broke through in the afternoon for a bit and they didn't know their way around yet.
THERE IS A SHOT OF THE POND, TAKEN THIS MORNING THROUGH MY FRONT WINDOW.
This is the area I do alot of birding from, the light is always good. Our house is a rectangle going East/West, so the suns direction is good a large part of the day.
One of the most strikingly patterned of all North American birds, the male painted bunting, with its blue head, red underparts, and yellow-green back more than lives up to its old name of Äúnonpareil,Äù, the unequaled one. Even the female, in shades of yellow and green, is unlike any other North American bunting. Like the other buntings, it favors hedgerows, thickets, and clearings with brushy area in the breeding season, generally staying low and keeping hidden. The song is a sweet warble with the pattern of a blue grosbeak, but the tone of an indigo or lazuli bunting without the paired phrases. It breeds in the Southeast along the Atlantic coast and in the southern great Plains south to northern Mexico. In the Southeast, the population has been declining sharply in recent decades and there is concern about its survival in this part of the range. Part of the Southeast population winters in Florida, where the birds are regular feeder visitors.
Info courtesy of Bird Watchers Digest.com
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