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of the Indigo Bunting. How often have I sat in a blind (or ‘hide’, as the ' English say), with my camera and. telephoto lens focused oh a nest with young, waiting to photograph the male feeding his scrawny offspring? Never have I seen a male visit the nest; it has always been the female. She is kept busy capturing insects to poke into open mouths at the nest. Nearby the male sings and keeps a lookout /or predators and other blue buntings that want to intrude on his territory. •. ..
Once I banded three young in an Indigo Bunting nest in West Virginia. They were within a day of leaving the nest. I wondered if I would ever see or hear them again. Sure enough, a mist net strung up in the same area the following June caught a banded female, A check through the records told me. she had been banded in the nest a year >efore. This bird had been to Mexico ind returned to the exact spot where >he had been hatched. This banded ady had captured the attention of a splendid blue male.
The male sings right through the teat of July. Indeed, the Indigo Bunting is one of the few birds that does not :ake shelter in the shade at high noon, rhe song is distinctive, rollicking and., syncopated, with notes in pairs. Once learned, the Indigo Bunting’s music is not forgotten.
In recent years I have had a number of reports, including one from anexcited Lee Trott, of Indigo Buntings visiting bird feeders, particularly during migration. Consider yourself lucky if an intensely all-blue bird turns up at your feeder, and even luckier if one is nesting nearby and the affirmative song is heard throughout the summer.
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