[Jeff]

I apologize for the quality but I only have a few painted bunting pictures and they were all taken from inside the house, through a dirty window with a telephoto.

 

[Jeff]

Good picture Brassman but owls creep me out for some reason!

This little guy shouldn't be creepy, he's about as big as a sparrow.

 

[Jeff]

Jeff, you always have the most awesome pics.
Thanks for sharing.
deb

I'm happy to share, Deb, and I've got lots of pictures.

 

[Jeff]

How similar is a painted bunting to an indigo bunting? Anyone have a picture of an indigo bunting?

They're about the same size but the indigo bunting is all brilliant blue. I have some pictures somewhere but Google was easier:

http://sdakotabirds.com/species_photos/indigo_bunting.htm

 

[Jeff]

Just gorgeous. I'm sad these birds aren't around here - so. Cal. I might have to go on a trip to find them!

If you're a birder, Central Texas is a great place to visit. We're on the cusp of the easter and western flyways and we get a fair number of occasional visitors from Mexico.

Does anyone have a good picture of a scissor-tailed flycatcher? None of mine show their colors well.

 

[Jeff]

And Jeff - don't forget the monarchs in the fall!

Ah yes. I've only been in the middle of that migration once; it was like a religious experience. Do they come down as far as your home?

 

[Jeff]

Hey guys. Saw your messages and klown talk goes in this topic because I make balloon hummingbirds It is the easiest animal that I made ( that is past tense).

Pictures?

 

[Jeff]

I can go up, it's the coming down that gets me.

Perhaps Dori's balloons might help. Let me see...

If I can find two of the correct balloons I will try to recreate that baby for this thread.

Great, Dori, thanks. Now, can you manage a helium filled hummingbird to get Dona off that mountain in Mexico?

 

[Jeff]

Latex Hummingbird (Indiana species) on Coreopsis

Thanks, Dori. Do you think it can lift Dona?

 

[Jeff]

Not if she weighs more that 1/2 ounce Jeff.

I'm not going there but thanks again, Dori.

 

[Jeff]

Did somebody say birds?

 

[Jeff]

Gorgeous. What are they?

A golden pheasant and roadrunner.

Here's a better picture of the pheasant on wikimedia:

 

[Jeff]

Glad you found a more interesting thread... Jeff.... saw you napping on the Author's

When one attains a certain age involuntary napping is a given. And I was yawning with them not at them.

 

[Jeff]

These are our harbingers of summer, snowy egrets, better know locally as cow-birds:

 

[Jeff]

My neighbors having longer horns than yours, Al.

 

[Jeff]

You win.

 

[Jeff]