Date: 6/3/26 11:10 am From: Lloyd Davies <ldavies...> Subject: Re: Yes, Sunflower Nature Park
Yes, awesome
On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 10:22 AM <chobbs.f1...> wrote:
> Bob, you are indeed the Painted Bunting Whisperer! Please, please share
> your technique for finding these beauties?!
>
> Chris Hobbs
> Lenexa, JoCo
> <chobbs.f1...>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birds & Their Habitats in Kansas <KSBIRD-L...> On
> Behalf
> Of Yang, Bobinyu
> Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2026 10:35 PM
> To: <KSBIRD-L...>
> Subject: Yes, Sunflower Nature Park
>
> A few days ago (5/30/2026), my wife and I found no painted bunting at the
> Sunflower Nature Park in De Soto, Kansas (see:
> https://ebird.org/checklist/S349840891). However, a male painted bunting
> was there last year on 8/12/2025 (see:
> https://ebird.org/checklist/S266902248). Reluntant to blame painted
> buntings for being unreliable migrants, we went back today, 6/2/2026, to
> see
> if any birds have returned. Sure enough, a drab female dutifully made her
> appearance. We were parked at (38.941926, -95.011923) to shoot the two
> photos at 4:51 p.m. shown below:
> https://ebird.org/checklist/S351631360 > So, painted buntings are beautiful and reliable. What more can one ask of
> a
> bird?
> Bob I. Yang
> <yangb...>
> Overland Park, Johnson County
>
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