Tag: Painted Bunting

  • The Painted Bunting—a Joy to Birders

    The Painted Bunting—a Joy to Birders

    by M. Kathy Raines Painted buntings don’t know about the coronavirus.   Oblivious to our fears and “shelter in place” orders, they, along with other exhausted, migrating birds, are stopping in South Texas in April and early May to rest and feed before flying northward, where they will merrily mate and nest. Though confined to…