Painted Bunting food

[DAVID A LEATHERMAN]

Could just one of the dozens (hundreds?) of people who have seen the Audubon Nature Center painted bunting comment on what kind of seed it is getting?  What is in the feeders?  What was spread on the bench mentioned in Greg Goodrich's recent post?  Thank you.

Dave Leatherman

Fort Collins

[Robb Hinds]

I have a couple photos that look like he is consuming millet. 

Robb Hinds

El Paso County

Colorado Springs

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[Dan Stringer]

During my 7/25 sighting the PABU spent most of it's time south of the feeder area in shady deciduous trees and numerous chokecherry (I think) bushes. When it flew to the feeder area it went directly into the same type of bush and fed there before scrounging for seed. The bird seemed to be feeding on small bugs in those bushes vs. berries.

Dan Stringer

Larkspur, CO

[Mark Miller]

Dave and others,

 

On the feeders, it enjoyed sunflower chips and, to a lesser extent, red millet. (Back when I was feeding birds, white millet was preferred over red. If you buy bird seed at the grocery store, prepare to see a lot of red millet tossed on the ground.) When it was in the weedy stuff south of the feeders, it was getting some sort of seeds, but I can’t say for sure what seeds it was actually finding.

 

Mark Miller

Longmont, CO

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[Art Hudak]

Mark,
The filler that is used in grocery store birdseed mixes that birds reject is milo not red millet.

Dave,
The birds preference is the white millet provided in the various seed mixes available. By my study yesterday no natural food source is attracting the bird.

Art Hudak
City of Denver
County of Denver

[Preston Sowell]

David,

I went through about 150 photos I took of the bird on Saturday evening. Every seed I saw it eat appears to be white millet. See attached photos.

Preston

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[Patrick O'Driscoll]

I, too, have a photo -- from the morning of the second day (July 24) -- that shows the PABU with a white millet seed in his mouth.

Patrick O'Driscoll

City/County of Denver

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[John Ealy]

The Audubon Nature Center painted bunting was present on and under the benches west of the southernmost building from about 1:14 to 1:30 p.m. Before the bird came, I checked out what seed was left, and it was all  shelled sunflower and milo, no white millet. With my bins, I could see him eating the sunflower but didn't get a photo.   

John Ealy

Roxborough Park, Douglas County

On Sunday, July 28, 2019 at 4:06:52 PM UTC-6, Dave Leatherman wrote: