You might’ve noticed. We have this “Hidden Bird Contest.” Our first two hidden birds, a Red-eyed Vireo and a Black Skimmer, were found by visitors to our site and these people had their names put into a drawing, blah, blah…anyway two winners got sweatshirts. You can read about this contest on our “Hidden Bird Contest” page. Now there’s a third bird that’s hidden. I wish I didn’t know where it was. People tell me it can be fun to go birding on this website. Like hunting around in the outdoors for a rare bird, but without leaving your keyboard. This hidden bird is the Painted Bunting. An improbably colorful male with patches of hot red, blue, green and purple. Probably the most colorful bird in America, maybe the world. To announce the new hidden bird contest we found a photo of an eyeball with these colors reflected in it. Sheer luck. Then we discover that this bird has been hidden in a place (sorry, can’t say where. It’d spoil the fun) that lines it up next to this photo. So it looks like the eye is reflecting the bird. Brilliant…but utterly unintended. If you haven’t found the Bunting yet, I guess we just gave you a bit of a clue, but not too much of a clue. You’ve still got a labyrinth of sorts to explore before your eye gets all colorful like that.
