Niler Pyeatt and I saw a Painted Redstart on the Wayland campus in Plainview
yesterday and it is still there this morning in the cottonwoods in front of
Gates Hall (main administrative building). All black upper with white patch on
each wing, red underside. Sallying and moving around in the cottonwoods and
over to the bricks on the building. I guess its picking off insects on the
bricks in the sun.
Niler got a cell phone photo from his office window where you can see the white
patch on black wing, but it's not good enough to share so I hope to get a
better photo later today if it's still around.
I've seen so few redstarts that I originally and unintentionally called it
American because that's all I thought of, even though I was looking at the
Painted Redstart in the bird app on my phone when I said it, so it got recorded
that way. Later Niler caught the error! Crazy brain fart!
Hopefully it hangs around a while!
Andy
Andrew C. Kasner, Ph.D.
Editor | Waterbirds
Director | Professor of Biological Sciences
Center for Undergraduate Research in Math and Science
School of Mathematics and Sciences
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