Thursday, November 10, 2016

Painted Redstart

Some of you may have heard of Painted Redstart that was seen in Pinewa, Manitoba. It is the third record in Canada, and the first in Manitoba.
On Monday I went to Pinewa (1 hour east of where I live) to see if I could find it. Nearly as soon as we got to the area we were told it was around there it was in a tree. Over the next ten minutes I was able to get some nice photos of it, but then it disappeared until several hours at later, when we saw it at the same spot just after sunset.


Painted Redstart

Painted Redstart

Painted Redstart

Painted Redstart

I walked around the neighborhood in search of the bird, and it was absolutely crawling with deer.





It was a fantastic experience to get such a great look at it. It's a beautiful bird!

You can see their range map on ebird: http://ebird.org/ebird/canada/map/paired?neg=true&env.minX=&env.minY=&env.maxX=&env.maxY=&zh=false&gp=false&ev=Z&mr=1-12&bmo=1&emo=12&yr=all&byr=1900&eyr=2016