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Early Summer, Continued

First, as promised, our gate flag.

This morning I went on the monthly San Marcos Bird Walk. I always learn a lot; the leader is very good at telling us what we’re hearing and seeing, and there’s a pretty good cross section of people although they mostly skew to retirees. Today we saw a number of painted buntings, which are one of the most spectacularly decorated songbirds.

They are pretty from the front, but not all that spectacular. But wait . . .
From the back they just look like someone made it up to be silly because who would be that colorful?
We can hear them at Tedderhaven but so far haven’t seen one. We’ll see it eventually, I’m sure.

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    • The painted buntings were in San Marcos on the bird walk, but we (by “we” I mean Merlin Sound ID) hear them regularly at Tedderhaven. I have seen (and photographed) exactly one, last year or the year before, but hold out hope for finding more.

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