Painted Bunting
Passerina ciris
Perhaps no other North American songbird rivals the beauty of the male Painted Bunting. Their coloring seems as if only the brightest colors in the crayon box were used to represent this ornate gem. First year males and females, though not as flashy, are shaded in tones of lime-green hues.
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma and northeastern Mexico are the primary locations these birds migrate in spring to breed, but the coastal slopes of South Carolina, Georgia and northern Florida also host a breeding summer population. When summer passes and it’s time to move to warmer climates they head south into places like southern Mexico and Central America, or south Florida and Cuba.

Painted Bunting(Passerina ciris) |
Description: When I stopped to stretch my legs I was delighted to meet my first bright male Painted Buntings. I met these birds at a roadside rest on US-83 in Texas, several miles south of the Uvalde County line. |
Date Taken: 2020:05:09 9:34 |
Location:
Smyth Crossing |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1600 |
File Name: PaintedBunting_D504727Uvalde-LaPryor-Texas |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Painted Bunting(Passerina ciris) |
Description: When I stopped to stretch my legs I was delighted to meet my first bright male Painted Buntings. I met these birds at a roadside rest on US-83 in Texas, several miles south of the Uvalde County line. |
Date Taken: 2020:05:09 9:38 |
Location:
Smyth Crossing |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: PaintedBunting_D504772Uvalde-LaPryor-Texas |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Painted Bunting(Passerina ciris) |
Description: When I stopped to stretch my legs I was delighted to meet my first bright male Painted Buntings. I met these birds at a roadside rest on US-83 in Texas, several miles south of the Uvalde County line. |
Date Taken: 2020:05:09 9:38 |
Location:
Smyth Crossing |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: PaintedBunting_D504790Uvalde-LaPryor-Texas |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Painted Bunting(Passerina ciris) |
Description: When I stopped to stretch my legs I was delighted to meet my first bright male Painted Buntings. I met these birds at a roadside rest on US-83 in Texas, several miles south of the Uvalde County line. |
Date Taken: 2020:05:09 9:39 |
Location:
Smyth Crossing |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: PaintedBunting_D504805Uvalde-LaPryor-Texas |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Painted Bunting(Passerina ciris) |
Description: When I stopped to stretch my legs I was delighted to meet my first bright male Painted Buntings. I met these birds at a roadside rest on US-83 in Texas, several miles south of the Uvalde County line. |
Date Taken: 2020:05:09 9:39 |
Location:
Smyth Crossing |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: PaintedBunting_D504818Uvalde-LaPryor-Texas |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Painted Bunting(Passerina ciris) |
Description: When I stopped to stretch my legs I was delighted to meet my first bright male Painted Buntings. I met these birds at a roadside rest on US-83 in Texas, several miles south of the Uvalde County line. |
Date Taken: 2020:05:09 9:40 |
Location:
Smyth Crossing |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/2000 |
File Name: PaintedBunting_D504861Uvalde-LaPryor-Texas |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Painted Bunting(Passerina ciris) |
Description: When I stopped to stretch my legs I was delighted to meet my first bright male Painted Buntings. I met these birds at a roadside rest on US-83 in Texas, several miles south of the Uvalde County line. |
Date Taken: 2020:05:09 9:41 |
Location:
Smyth Crossing |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/2000 |
File Name: PaintedBunting_D504904Uvalde-LaPryor-Texas |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Painted Bunting(Passerina ciris) |
Description: When I stopped to stretch my legs I was delighted to meet my first bright male Painted Buntings. I met these birds at a roadside rest on US-83 in Texas, several miles south of the Uvalde County line. |
Date Taken: 2020:05:09 9:44 |
Location:
Smyth Crossing |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1250 |
File Name: PaintedBunting_D504938Uvalde-LaPryor-Texas |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Painted Bunting(Passerina ciris) |
Description: First year male Painted Buntings look very much like their moms. When I stopped to stretch my legs I was delighted to meet my first male Painted Buntings. I met these birds at a roadside rest on US-83 in Texas, several miles south of the Uvalde County line. |
Date Taken: 2020:05:09 9:51 |
Location:
Smyth Crossing |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/4000 |
File Name: PaintedBunting_D505022Uvalde-LaPryor-Texas |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Painted Bunting(Passerina ciris) |
Description: First year male Painted Buntings look very much like their moms. When I stopped to stretch my legs I was delighted to meet my first male Painted Buntings. I met these birds at a roadside rest on US-83 in Texas, several miles south of the Uvalde County line. |
Date Taken: 2020:05:09 9:53 |
Location:
Smyth Crossing |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/4000 |
File Name: PaintedBunting_D505091Uvalde-LaPryor-Texas |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Painted Bunting(Passerina ciris) |
Description: First year male Painted Buntings look very much like their moms. When I stopped to stretch my legs I was delighted to meet my first male Painted Buntings. I met these birds at a roadside rest on US-83 in Texas, several miles south of the Uvalde County line. |
Date Taken: 2020:05:09 9:58 |
Location:
Smyth Crossing |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/5000 |
File Name: PaintedBunting_D505224Uvalde-LaPryor-Texas |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Painted Bunting(Passerina ciris) |
Description: First year male Painted Buntings look very much like their moms. When I stopped to stretch my legs I was delighted to meet my first male Painted Buntings. I met these birds at a roadside rest on US-83 in Texas, several miles south of the Uvalde County line. |
Date Taken: 2020:05:09 9:58 |
Location:
Smyth Crossing |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/4000 |
File Name: PaintedBunting_D505241Uvalde-LaPryor-Texas |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Painted Bunting(Passerina ciris) |
Description: I was hoping to meet the male Painted Bunting in Texas, but this young lady was a nice consolation prize. My third visit to Atascosa NWR in South Texas was intended to pickup images of a couple of the birds I came up short with on my second visit. But then I started meeting new birds and I stayed all day. |
Date Taken: 2020:04:24 11:37 |
Location:
Atascosa NWR |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/400 |
File Name: PaintedBunting_D506385-Atascosa-NWR |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Painted Bunting(Passerina ciris) |
Description: I was hoping to meet the male Painted Bunting in Texas, but this young lady was a nice consolation prize. My third visit to Atascosa NWR in South Texas was intended to pickup images of a couple of the birds I came up short with on my second visit. But then I started meeting new birds and I stayed all day. |
Date Taken: 2020:04:24 11:39 |
Location:
Atascosa NWR |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/800 |
File Name: PaintedBunting_D506471-Atascosa-NWR |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Painted Bunting(Passerina ciris) |
Description: I was hoping to meet the male Painted Bunting in Texas, but this young lady was a nice consolation prize. My third visit to Atascosa NWR in South Texas was intended to pickup images of a couple of the birds I came up short with on my second visit. But then I started meeting new birds and I stayed all day. |
Date Taken: 2020:04:24 11:39 |
Location:
Atascosa NWR |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/1000 |
File Name: PaintedBunting_D506474-Atascosa-NWR |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Painted Bunting(Passerina ciris) |
Description: I was hoping to meet the male Painted Bunting in Texas, but this young lady was a nice consolation prize. My third visit to Atascosa NWR in South Texas was intended to pickup images of a couple of the birds I came up short with on my second visit. But then I started meeting new birds and I stayed all day. |
Date Taken: 2020:04:24 11:39 |
Location:
Atascosa NWR |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/640 |
File Name: PaintedBunting_D506488-Atascosa-NWR |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |


Painted Bunting(Passerina ciris) |
Description: First year male Painted Buntings look very much like their moms. When I stopped to stretch my legs I was delighted to meet my first male Painted Buntings. I met these birds at a roadside rest on US-83 in Texas, several miles south of the Uvalde County line. |
Date Taken: 2020:05:09 9:54 |
Location:
Smyth Crossing |
Camera Information: NIKON D500, 800 mm, f/8.0, 1/3200 |
File Name: PaintedBunting_D505117Uvalde-LaPryor-Texas |
© 2020 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com |

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