Date: 5/31/26 7:22 am From: Atcha Nolan <qanolan1942...> Subject: Re: New Site in JoCo for Painted Bunting
Absolutely beautiful!
On Sat, May 30, 2026 at 11:36 PM Yang, Bobinyu <
<000011d835fbb54b-dmarc-request...> wrote:
> I am happy to report that my wife and I have discovered today, 5/30/2026,
> a new location in Johnson County harboring a painted bunting. The place is
> near NWCFD Sunflower Fire Station., W 99 St @ Lexington Ave, De Soto, KS.
> (38.948831, -94.992925). We were parked on the west side of Lexington
> Ave. The bird could have come from the pasture on the east side of the
> road. It was a truly brilliant male deserving the title of being the most
> beautiful bird in North America. Two photos taken at 7:26 p.m. may be
> viewed here:
> https://ebird.org/checklist/S349840891 > For the past couple of weeks, we have been checking locations where
> painted buntings were found last year. Our observations showed this
> species to reliably return to the same haunts year after year. On the
> outing today, we first went to Sunflower Nature Park. This time, the
> reliability failed. A painted bunting was there on 8/12/2025, but nothing
> today. Just for grins, we drove 1.4 miles eastward along Lexington Ave and
> stopped at this seemingly "birdy" spot. And we got lucky. How abundant
> are painted buntings in Johnson County? I wonder.
> Bob I. Yang
> <yangb...>
> Overland Park, Johnson County
>
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