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    Default Painted Buntings

    If you live within an hour of the SC coast and you've never done it, you need to take a morning drive with your best girl and best pair of binoculars, find a wheat field with a wooded edge and look at some painted buntings. It's just hard to believe they're real.










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    When I lived in the peedee I had a few that would visit my bird feeder outside my office window. By far my favorite visitors out of all of the birds that came through.

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    Beautiful birds! I thought about you a few weeks ago. Was down in Jacksonboro, and saw a group of Glossy Ibis. Not everyday you see them.

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    Very nice as usual RH.

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    Awesome Picture's. I saw one back when I lived in Lake Lure years ago. Thanks for the great pics
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    Makes me miss seeing them at my old house. Need to get a feeder up and see if I can get any to come around
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    I love the pics.

    That third one really struck me.

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    Excellent pictures! I’ve been watching a pair for a couple weeks now. Here is a terrible cell phone pic. I wish I took pictures as nice as yours!




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    We have a pair that visit our feeder every now and again- about an hour south of Merritt island- beautiful birds
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    Thanks Guys.

    Quote Originally Posted by Drylok View Post
    That third one really struck me.
    Thanks - I almost didn't use that one. He was reflecting a full sun and actually "blew out" the photo. I had to really mute the reflected light with Photoshop. It would have been a good time to use a polarizer.
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    I saw a pile of em in the Francis Marion last year. Awesome birds.

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    Thanks for sharing those. Cool little birds. I am sure there is some evolutionary benefit to them dressing in gaudy colors like old women at an AME family reunion, or Clemson fans, but it escapes me...

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    Quote Originally Posted by JABIII View Post
    Thanks for sharing those. Cool little birds. I am sure there is some evolutionary benefit to them dressing in gaudy colors like old women at an AME family reunion, or Clemson fans, but it escapes me...
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    I lock the breaks up quite often hoping one of these blue grosbeaks turns out to be an indigo.
    Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.

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    I had a terrible phone pic of a painted and an indigo on a feeder at the same time. The overgrown lot next to me was cleared and sold a couple years back and I haven’t seen a single one of either since.
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    Gorgeous bird!!!
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    Yep..really cool. Thanks for sharing that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BOGSTER View Post
    I lock the breaks up quite often hoping one of these blue grosbeaks turns out to be an indigo.
    I see indigo buntings almost year round and blue grosbeaks only occasionally. They're always around field edges bordering thickets. I have a pair of rose-breasted grosbeaks that just showed up yesterday, too.

    Painted buntings showed up at my feeders two weeks ago. Their novelty has almost worn off. They're the most prevalent bird on my feeders now. Wild looking birds. Modern day Carolina parakeets.

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    Really cool.

    My experiences are the opposite.

    Blue grosbeaks littering the field edges, have yet to see a bunting.

    My neighbor has been feeding birds for 50 years and has all sorts imprinted on her.

    I’ve piggy backed on her work and now am covered in painted buntings.

    Had a pair back in February.

    I wanna know how Rubberheads old man got the orioles coming.

    I’ll keep trying the jelly and oranges.
    Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BOGSTER View Post
    I wanna know how Rubberheads old man got the orioles coming.

    I’ll keep trying the jelly and oranges.
    I'm not sure you do - he cusses three times a day when he has to drag is cold butt outside to spoon feed the birds because mom won't let him forget...
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