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As I was driving from Flint Hill to Washington (Virginia, of course) yesterday, I heard a number of Indigo Buntings singing. The syncopated, pleasantly strident and bouncy song of paired notes came to me every mile or so.
Though it is still spring, this bird’s song defines the stillness and mid-day heat of high summer; a time when the Indigo Bunting is most often heard. The all-blue blue bird is a persistent singer and not even the dense heat of August, when other birds retreat in silence to the shade, silences him.
The Indigo Bunting has maintained healthy, even growing, populations. Man’s changes to the natural world have benefitted the little blue blunting. Don't look for his bright blue plumage in the deep forest; nor will you find him in the open, grassy field. These birds prefer low shrubs, blackberry tangles, overgrown pastures, cut Over areas under power lines, and hedgerows fot their nests that are rarely mpre than three feet from the ground.
> After my drive to Washington, I returned to the Flint Hill Post Office; there I found a letter from Don and Mary Nielsen of Huntly. They
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