Here are a couple Painted Bunting photos that we have recently taken at a public garden in Southwest Philadelphia. These photos were taken in the second week of January of a bird a long way from home. Those of you who live in the southern part of our country have probably seen these songbirds quite often. The birds spend a good part of their non-breeding time in Central America. These unusually colorful birds migrate and breed in the Southeast and in the south-central United States. Male Painted Bunting birds are very easy to spot since their colors are blue, green, red and yellow. The female birds are just bright green in color.
Even though the birds are a long way from home in Philadelphia, this is the third consecutive year that one has been spotted at this location. We felt fortunate to have been able to take some photos of this Painted Bunting. We hadn’t visited this garden before, and it was our first time seeing one of those very colorful birds. Painted Buntings are medium-sized birds similar in size to finches. They’re a very colorful species in the Cardinal family, along with other Buntings, Grosbeaks and Tanagers.
