{"id":8215,"date":"2021-02-20T07:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T12:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flgcc.com\/?p=8215"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:56:33","slug":"our-favorite-bunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/20\/our-favorite-bunting\/florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Favorite Bunting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our favorite male painted bunting has been coming to our caged millet feeder since early November. Hardly a day goes by that we don&#8217;t see him several times. A couple of weeks ago he surprised us by bringing a buddy to the feeder. Two male painted buntings on the feeder at the same time is quite a sight! The second bunting is now a regular visitor. Hopefully they&#8217;ll spread the word and we can attract a female before they head north for the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210121-4-painted-bunting-male-on-ground-looking-for-grass-seeds.jpg\" alt=\"Painted Bunting Male On Ground Looking For Grass Seeds\" class=\"wp-image-98593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210121-4-painted-bunting-male-on-ground-looking-for-grass-seeds.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210121-4-painted-bunting-male-on-ground-looking-for-grass-seeds-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210121-4-painted-bunting-male-on-ground-looking-for-grass-seeds-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210121-4-painted-bunting-male-on-ground-looking-for-grass-seeds-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210121-4-painted-bunting-male-on-ground-looking-for-grass-seeds-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210121-4-painted-bunting-male-on-ground-looking-for-grass-seeds-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Male Painted Bunting on the Ground Looking for Grass Seeds<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>For a larger selection of photos, go to the galleries listed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/gary-walker-photography\/galleries\/nature\/birds\/buntings\/\">Buntings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our favorite male painted bunting has been coming to our caged millet feeder since early November. Hardly a day goes by that we don&#8217;t see him several times. A couple of weeks ago he surprised us by bringing a buddy to the feeder. Two male painted buntings on the feeder at the same time is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2743],"tags":[2774],"class_list":["post-8215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida","tag-nature"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/210120-3-painted-bunting-male-resting-in-bottlebrush-tree.jpg?ver","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109168,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215\/revisions\/109168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flgcc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}