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Re: Painted Buntings



Dear Painted Bunting lovers,

Yes, this is a good description of typical habitat. You should be able
to find Painteds at any similar location along the SC coast. I've seen them
at Hilton Head, Fripp, Edisto, Folly, Sullivan's, Bull's, and along the
"Grand Strand". Pick a nice beach spot, and patiently explore the
scrub/Myrtle stuff
around and behind the dunes. Any bunting singing in there is most likely
a Painted, the Indigos are generally further inland and in a more open spot
with
taller trees. I had one inland at Lieber Correctional Institution last
month, in Dorchester County, SC about 45 miles inland.

Good birding,
Steve Compton
mailto:scompton@sc.rr.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Harry Davis <hdavis@dentalhome.com>
To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 10:16 AM
Subject: Painted Buntings


> To the person who recently asked about painted buntings in the
> Charleston area... we are on vacation this week at Isle of Palms and
> there are quite a few of them here in the small oaks and underbrush
> between the beachfront houses and the dunes.  Specifically, the public
> access path to the beach adjacent to 3006 Palm Boulevard passes through
> a dense thicket and during the day he frequently sings from a dead
> branch in the top of the oak tree.  Early in the morning he sings from
> the top of a mast on a Catamaran at the end of the public access path.
> We've been here since Saturday and I heard them singing the first day
> but assumed it was an indigo bunting because that's what it sounded like
> to me (rule #1: never assume).  Yesterday I pulled out my Sibley's guide
> because I wanted to find a painted bunting while I was here and read
> that the painted bunting sounds much like the indigo.  I pulled out my
> binoculars and there he was right under my nose.  There are more of them
> about 12 houses up the beach towards Wild Dunes and again about a dozen
> or so more houses beyond that.
>
> Harry Davis
> Greenville, SC
>