Painted Buntings ~ "Summer Love" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed This is more than a

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Painted Buntings ~ "Summer Love" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Framing:Unframed This is more than aThis painted bunting original painting captures a pair in their most intimate season. "Summer Love" shows two painted buntings together the male in his impossible rainbow plumage, the female in her quieter but equally beautiful yellow green. Painted buntings are one of the few songbirds where the pair bond is visible in their body language: they perch close, they orient toward each other, they share space with an ease that reads as genuine