Suddenly everything went purple.

Batu - East Java - Indonesia

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Brazoria County, Texas

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Queen Anne's county, MD

Indigo Bunting perches on a milkweed plant at Bombay Hook NWR.

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Indigo Buntings are actually black; the diffraction of light through their feathers makes them look blue. This explains why males can appear many shades from turquoise to black

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Breeding males of Indigo Bunting

(Passerina cyanea) are entirely blue with a slightly darker head. Females are plain brown with a whitish throat, bluish tail, and faint streaks on the underparts. Breeds in shrubby areas at the edge of forests and fields. Males often sing from a high exposed perch.

Indigo symbolizes a mystical borderland of wisdom, self-mastery and spiritual realization.

The wonderful indigo bell shaped flowers of the Jacaranda Tree.

Have a safe new week.

Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held resposible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today ?

yet another red Aster.

How can I resist them, so vibrant, pure eye candy.

Have a wonderful day and thank you for your comments... M, (*_*)

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Wikipedia: The indigo bunting (Passerina cyanea) is a small seed-eating bird in the cardinal family, Cardinalidae. It is migratory, ranging from southern Canada to northern Florida during the breeding season, and from southern Florida to northern South America during the winter. It often migrates by night, using the stars to navigate. Its habitat is farmland, brush areas, and open woodland. The indigo bunting is closely related to the lazuli bunting and interbreeds with the species where their ranges overlap.

It has occurred as a vagrant in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Denmark, Ecuador, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Serbia and the United Kingdom.

Conservation status: Least Concern

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An Indigo Bunting in my friends backyard. She has it beautifully staged to take photos of some fantastic birds.

I captured this Male Indigo Bunting at Silver Creek Preserve in St. Clair County, Illinois.

Vibert Road, South Windsor, Connecticut

In my backyard this week.

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Indigo Bunting ~ (Passerina cyanea)

I birded Fort DeSoto yesterday afternoon. There were far fewer migrants compared to last weekend's bonanza - but I was able to find a few gems such as this Indigo Bunting.

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Gemstones: indigo Tourmaline earrings that are handmade. Wax candle glass was the prop I used.

This is my entry for Looking close... on Friday! - "Gemstones"

Indigo Bunting.

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yes I am a big fan of white lilies...

Lilium longiflorum.

This plant is native to Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands. It is a stem rooting lily, growing up to 1 m high and bears a number of trumpet shaped, white, very fragrant, and outward facing flowers.

We have a family of friends that we visit every year, they breed horses, wonderful people.

They have now made it a tradition that each year, on the day of our return back home, the end of our visit/holidays, they present me with a bunch of freshly-cut Lilies (one of the sons helps on a farm where they grow them for the bulbs!).

It is a bouquet that I can barely hold my arms around, I had to buy a BIG vase and even now, they are split into two displays. Our house is filled whit the fragrance.

What wonderful friends we have all over!

Thank you for your time and comments, M, (*_*)

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Long Island, NY

Middle Creek Wildlife Refuge Pa.

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A male Indigo Bunting found during spring migration.

I captured this Male Indigo Bunting at Silver Creek Preserve in St. Clair County, Illinois.

So here is another excuse not to be in any hasty hurry to cut the grass! This little Indigo Bunting is most likely passing through in migration but here he is eating the tiny little grass seeds. :D I do wish he and the misses would stay but they never do, only staying a week or so to refuel.

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Leonabelle and Turnbull Nature Center, Port Aransas, Nueces County, Texas

Indigo Bunting Lost River WV

Indigo Bunting

This bird knows blue.

Indigo Bunting at Bombay Hook NWR, Delaware.

Indigo Bunting

Title by Duke Ellington, 1930

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Not sure but in my bird book this kinda looks like a Indigo bunting, if not ..my bad.

This afternoon I was able to make a brief visit to the Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary and was pleased to find a handful of migrant songbirds gobbling up anything they could find to eat. This Indigo Bunting was the greeting committee, eating corn from the trail near the entrance of the sanctuary. That blue is really something special.

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Passerina cyanea

Mr. & Ms. Bunting were in the meadow observing flight practice by their two offspring. They split up with Mom taking one away and Dad staying with the other.

Lowell, MI

@St Thomas Mount, Chennai

Work and family have kept me off the winged subjects chase, hence the heavy dose of archived work and infrequent posting. My 600 f4 went to Nikon for a checkup. after calibration, clear improvement- the is straight out of the camera, just cropped slightly.

Indigo Bunting