My Painted Buntings are getting more active in the backyard.  Starting in early October, we’d see a single male at a time.  Now we see males and females together, with a high count of two males and a greenie.  You can hear them calling to each other from within our viburnum hedges.  They are such fun to watch – and every time I see one, I still can’t believe that we have them in our own backyard!  I need to get a bird blind and experiment with attracting them to a prettier perch…