George Franchois found this beautiful Lazuli Bunting in Red Hill, PA earlier this week.

Study Of A Lazuli Bunting

George Franchois found a very pretty Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena) in Red Hill, PA, March 4th, 2007. A beautifully colored bird, the Lazuli Bunting is common in shrubby areas throughout the American West.

Lazuli Buntings breed mostly west of the 100th meriidian from southern Canada to northern Texas, central New Mexico and Arizona. On the Pacific coast their breeding range extends south to extreme northwestern Baja California. They migrate to southeastern Arizona and Mexico. Their habitat is brushy areas and sometimes weedy pastures, generally well-watered, and sometimes in towns. These birds eat mostly seeds and insects. They may feed conspicuously on the ground or in bushes, but singing males are often very elusive in treetops.This bird makes a loose cup nest of grasses and rootlets placed in a bush. It lays three or four pale blue eggs. In the eastern and southern part of its range, it often hybridizes with the Indigo Bunting. (From Wikpedia)

This visitor hung out with a bunch of sparrows and we were able to photograph it from March 7th through April 9th when it disappeared. Apparently, this is only the third time this neat vagrant has been seen in Pennsylvania.

Lazuli Bunting In Red Hill, PA On March 8th. Lazuli Bunting On March 20th

                                 Lazuli Bunting On March 25th                                                                                                          The Lazuli Bunting Showing More Of Its White Wingbar On April 8th.

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