Indigo Bunting
“Closer inspection revealed the dazzling deep sapphire plumage of a male Indigo Bunting.”
Through the year
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Year by year
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Notable sightings – If the bird looks like a scrap of sky with wings, you just might well have seen an Indigo Bunting!
On May 27 highlights included a much-welcomed male Indigo Bunting with its deep-sea blue coloring and a Rough-legged Swallow in the company of a dozen or more Barn Swallows.
On the 10th I incidentally came across a female Indigo Bunting dining at our feeder.
A flock of twenty or more Common Terns in Pond Cove on May 20, Cedar Waxwings appearing locally throughout Cape starting on May 21 and a Indigo Bunting and Prothonotary Warbler in Hinckley Park on May 22.
Two observations of note in late April included a stunning male Indigo Bunting that my wife reported seeing within the tangles of Jordan Farm Road on April 29 and, the cryptically plumed nightjar I heard somewhere along Shore Road on April 30.
Also, amongst the House Finches and molting Goldfinches I spotted a female Indigo Bunting in our backyard.
By the first day in May last year Gray Catbirds had already arrived as had Blue-headed Vireos, Blue Gray Gnatcatchers, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, Indigo Buntings and Barn Swallows.
There was also a report on this day of a female Indigo Bunting discovered within Two Lights State Park.
Closer inspection revealed the dazzling deep sapphire plumage of a male Indigo Bunting.