This week's collection of Sightings

This week's collection of Sightings

Sandra has good reason to be excited about sharing this photo as painted buntings are very rare as far north as southern Canada and the Maritimes. Their usual range in the east is from South Carolina to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi with a larger western population from Arkansas to west Texas and northern Mexico. So this bird is a long way from home. The male painted bunting has been described as the most colourful songbird in North America and …