{"id":23045,"date":"2023-07-31T10:17:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T15:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23045"},"modified":"2023-08-18T17:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T22:24:01","slug":"painted-bunting-passerina-ciris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23045","title":{"rendered":"Painted Bunting (<em>Passerina ciris<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23048\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230731_011497.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23048\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230731_011497-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230731_011497-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230731_011497-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230731_011497-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230731_011497-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_20230731_011497.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painted Bunting (<em>Passerina ciris<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cathy and I drove to Sunset Beach today and walked from the west end of town out onto the beach and then further west to the Bird Island Reserve nature trail. It&#8217;s a pretty good walk but not a difficult one. We had heard that there was a good chance of seeing painted buntings (<em>Passerina ciris<\/em>). As it turned out, we only saw one and he was a rather scruffy looking fellow, possibly a juvenile, just getting his adult plumage. He was singing nicely for us, though, and I was able to get a short video, as well as a handful of photos. He&#8217;s in the shadows of the twigs to the right, which makes his color pattern seem a little odd, but that&#8217;s him, anyway. There were quite a few swallows flying around, as well as cardinals and mourning doves, but we only saw the one bunting. Nevertheless, worth it and we&#8217;ll probably plan to go again next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy and I drove to Sunset Beach today and walked from the west end of town out onto the beach and then further west to the Bird Island Reserve nature trail. It&#8217;s a pretty good walk but not a difficult one. We had heard that there was a good chance of seeing painted buntings (Passerina &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=23045\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[3424,61,3182,3423,3184,3422,2422,3425],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23049,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23045\/revisions\/23049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}