Painted Buntings

image source: www.houstonaudubon.org

This sweetie has been a regular at our kitchen window bird feeder for a few days now....he's sharing the food with a cardinal family (mom, dad and son), a mourning dove couple, a wren family (mom, dad and 3 babies in a nest low enough to see the peeps), as well as many other sparrows and sweet singers!

Oh, and I need to mention that last week we had the awesome opportunity to see 3 Great Horned Owlets in their nest in our park. Our friend has been watching the nest since January and brought us there and set up her scope for us....WOW!!! And we have a Crested Caracara who lives nearby (they look a lot like a bald eagle), a red shouldered hawk pair nesting behind our house, and a Road Runner dashed past the fence this morning...How can we ever leave our back yard?

This isn't a picture that I took...my camera always needs batteries and I can never change them fast enough before he gets spooked...so Annie suggested we get a photo from the internet. Hopefully we will get a good picture to post soon.