[TN-Bird] Painted Bunting in Knox County

Virginia Fairchild and I confirmed the presence of a male Painted 
Bunting this afternoon - Sunday, March 30 - in Farragut in West Knox 
County. On the afternoon of Thursday, March 27, the bird was first 
discovered by Ann and Tom Nelson at a feeder in their backyard. They 
reported their Thursday sighting to me on Friday but did not see the 
bird again until today.
Their neighbor also saw the bird. She described it as the bird of seven 
colors.

Virginia and I and Dean Edwards looked for several hours this afternoon. 
Finally as Virginia and I were about to give up we spotted the red bird 
with the blue head in the top of a Bradford pear about 5:40 pm. We 
watched and photographed the bird for 20 or 25 minutes.

It certainly was a colorful spectacle perched against the background of 
the white Bradford pear flowers.

I think this is the second record of a Painted Bunting in Knox County.

Marcia Davis
Knoxville

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