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By John Trott
The Virginia Naturalist
Cardinal. In some books it is described as a ‘blue cardinal’ without a crest. The Blue Grosbeak has two brown-totan wing bars. Blue Grosbeaks are present in many parts of the Virginia Piedmont; I would like to know if readers have seen them. It’s a bird I have long wished to photograph.
Females in both the bunting and the grosbeak are brown, nondescript ladies; hard to see and difficult to describe. Much of the rural Virginia Piedmont is ideal habitat for Indigo Buntings. They prefer brushy, cut-over areas with hedgerows bordered by fields. Males sing from a high, exposed perch while the dull females build nests in low shrubs within a foot or two of the ground. There they lay and incubate eggs so white one can see the orange yolk inside.
The female certainly carries the major part of the reproductive duties
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