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I rarely get the chance to come up to McKinney, so I visited a couple parks in the area.

Touch Down
That split second right after she lands, and before she folds her wings & drinks.

Military land, permit required for access.

the ratio of tail length to head-body length <1 (see Choate 1973 article on identification of Peromyscus mice in Connecticut; www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1378871.pdf)

Male Painted Bunting observed in front of a large wood pile near the road to the back prairie at LLELA. Bands on right leg.

Leg band