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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.
Conservation status: Least Concern
Wild Indigo Duskywing in my yard in Chester County.
These butterflies are relatively common but difficult to identify, so this is the first time that I have identified and photographed this butterfly, I almost certainly have seen them many times before.
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This male indigo bunting gave my husband and me a really special treat of long observation in our walk . . . twice. This is the "return" visit, when we walked by the same place we had seen this bunting just under an hour earlier, and found him still here (or back again). His mate was in the grass below him this time, though she didn't give me a clear shot. I have put the shots of the second sighting first since I had a cleaner background for these.
Here he is facing the other direction from the next two shots, but on the same tree. He was on two different branches a few inches apart during the second sighting.
Indigo Buntings (Passerina cyanea) migrate at night, using the stars for guidance. Researchers demonstrated this process in the late 1960s by studying captive Indigo Buntings in a planetarium and then under the natural night sky. The birds possess an internal clock that enables them to continually adjust their angle of orientation to a star, even as that star moves through the night sky.
Mustang Trail. Meadowood Recreation Area, Lorton, VA.
Another passerine in my series is this Indigo Bunting found in Marais Des Cygne National Wildlife Refuge, Kansas.
Indigo Beach was hit really hard by Hurricane Irma, losing a lot of its sand and becoming much rockier. Irma was in 2017. Since then, the sand has started returning and it is once again a lovely spot to visit in St. Maarten. They also have a great beach bar/restaurant.
Il était une feuille avec ses lignes
Ligne de vie Ligne de chance
Ligne de cœur.
Il était un arbre au bout de la branche.
Un arbre digne de vie
Digne de chance
Digne de cœur.
Cœur gravé, percé, transpercé,
Un arbre que nul jamais ne vit.
Il était des racines au bout de l'arbre.
Racines vignes de vie
Vignes de chance
Vignes de cœur.
Au bout des racines
il était la terre.
La terre tout court
La terre toute ronde
La terre toute seule au travers du ciel
La terre.
Robert Desnos (1900-1945)
Poète surréaliste français
Memere and I took a few wrong turns and ended up at the wrong place, but were rewarded with some beautiful Indigos singing away! So happy these guys stick around for more than 38 seconds like the rest of the migrants.
E.m.p. from the mother and son
Tore the digital down
Dawned is the age of the innocent ones
The indigo children
Analog time piece sky wide
Sync to the ticker inside
Move to the rhythm of the moon and tide
The indigo children
Serious Venus and the lunar child
(get your life up untied)
Giggle and the flames grow higher
Dance in a circle around a central fire
The indigo children
Wine, song, food and fire
Clothe, shelter and seed
No more need for the old empire (there they were to the empire) the indigo children
Serious Venus and the lunar child
Giggle and the flames grow higher
Dance in a circle around a central fire
The indigo children
Wine, song, food and fire
Clothe, shelter and seed
No more need for the old empire(fare thee well to the empire) the indigo children
The indigo children come
A member of the cardinal family, the Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea) is just about as vibrant a bird as they come. It is as though a stitch of the sky has fallen and flutters through our trees, seeking out ways to return. Fittingly, these beautiful birds prefer to sing from the very highest perches that they can find. They also share another thing in common with the sky: neither is ACTUALLY blue. Indigo bunting feathers have no blue pigmentation. Instead, their feathers refract shorter wavelengthed blue light in the same way that air particles scatter it. But if you hold up an indigo bunting feather and light it from behind, you'll see that it actually contains dark brown pigmentation!