Male Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris ciris) - The Space Coast of Florida

OK! OK!? I admit it!!!
The reason I decided to set up a bird feeder out back was for this!
Yeah, yeah it's trite and trivial, but I just couldn't help myself.
So there it is, a male Painted bunting on a bird feeder!
Sue me! :{(

Note (04/09/18):
In the comment section, I noticed there were some folk who thought this guy was an escapee (i.e. no way he was a native North American bird). Funny how we tend to think that beauty is unnatural! Yeah, not funny ha ha, but that it was too good to be true. Well. . . in my opinion, beauty is everywhere, and all you have to do to see it, is ease-up on your definition of beauty!
Ooops, she deleted her comment.
I guess I must have embarrassed her. Sorry . . .

Appended (04/09/18):
I also posted this image on FaceBook where I got a lot of questions about the feeder perch extensions.
The “extensions” are pieces of ¼” irrigation tubing.
The tubing allows the birds to get far enough away from the feeding port so they can get their heads into the port without having to contort their bodies to do it. The tubing is available in 50 foot lengths at most garden centers. I like the porous drip irrigation tubing for this since it has a porous grippy surface that grips tightly to the short aluminum perch as well as giving birds a better grip on the perch.
Shame on you “Droll Yankee” for simply shrinking down a “good” design without giving any thought to how the smaller perches affected the utility of the design. Feel free to sell “Large bird adapter kits” to your unhappy customers. You can send the check for this idea to me by messaging me through Flickr mail for an address. LOL

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Male Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris ciris) - Green Cay Nature Center and Wetlands, 12800 Hagen Ranch Road, Boynton Beach, Florida

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Male Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris ciris) - Green Cay Nature Center and Wetlands, 12800 Hagen Ranch Road, Boynton Beach, Florida

Seems like every time I see these guys they're in poor light, but beggars can't be choosers, so I settled on ISO 800 for this capture.

Still waitin' for tha day I can capture one at ISO 100.
Let's just hope I don't blow out the reds with that much light!

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Female Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris ciris) - The Space Coast of Florida

I got this feeder to see if there were any of these guys in the neighborhood, and sure enough there were!
But so were there squirrels, who chewed the feeder down,
broke it, and ruined it for everybody! :{(

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