{"id":54228,"date":"2013-12-28T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=77a07f38571884e7de560cfff884f45b"},"modified":"2019-12-23T00:40:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T11:40:04","slug":"could-i-interest-you-in-some-buntings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/could-i-interest-you-in-some-buntings\/","title":{"rendered":"Could I interest you in some buntings?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This summer was full of buntings. A bunting-filled summer. Buntings everywhere. We can offer Painted, Indigo, Lazuli, and Varied. Take your pick. Come one, come all. But this is weird because I’m talk-tying like this is present tense and it’s actually past tense. But you know what I’m getting at.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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More to the point: this post is about Varied Buntings. As you can see from the photos, the males wear the fancy pants. And damn! Aren’t they fancy?!<\/p>\n

Yes, they are. I’ve lived in the Texas Hill Country for six breeding seasons, and have only ever seen one Varied Bunting before. So when a whole family appeared at one of the field sites, well. Well, yeah! Very cool.<\/p>\n

I guess Varied Buntings aren’t really all that well studied and there aren’t a whole lot of cases of them breeding in this area. A pleasant surprise indeed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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This pair had three fledglings that I could see (possibly a fourth but he was very elusive) and they were probably only 2-3 days out of the nest. There was a Black-capped Vireo family and a Golden-cheeked Warbler family all hanging out right next to the Varied group. It was mildly overstimulating. Eatin’ musta been real good!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Varied Buntings are just a little bit smaller than the Painteds, Lazulis, and Indigos. If you want to get a good look at these guys, you’re gonna have to get yourself down to southern Texas, Arizona, or New Mexico. Oh and hey! Merry-happy holidays if I fail to get back on here before then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This summer was full of buntings. A bunting-filled summer. Buntings everywhere. We can offer Painted, Indigo, Lazuli, and Varied. Take your pick. Come one, come all. But this is weird because I’m talk-tying like this is present tense and it’s actually past tense. But you know what I’m getting at. More to the point: this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":2147582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[5256,5257,2425,7774],"class_list":["post-54228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-black-capped-vireo","tag-golden-cheeked-warbler","tag-jill-wussow","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}