Indigo buntings by the stream
I got up at 6 or so and went down to the stream with cameras in hand. I watched the indigo buntings and was able to film them for quite awhile as they flitted from cedar to basswood to the wires to the bushes and around again. It was nice to see them!
We have had these beautiful blue birds for 17 years while we have lived here, but never really paid any attention to them. It never occurred to me that they lived here and weren't just a fluke sighting. So today with my camera, I studied and captured them. How wonderful!
The female looks like a sparrow, but with a touch of blue on the tail, the book says. It was interesting to hear three of them. That means they have young ones! I got near the base of the cedar by the pondlane, and the female got quite agitated and flew back and forth across the lane, so I must have been close to the nest.
I walked along with my cameras and filmed the lovely growth of the willow plants. They are doing so well now! The grass is trying to come up through the end of the pond lane, though.
We have had these beautiful blue birds for 17 years while we have lived here, but never really paid any attention to them. It never occurred to me that they lived here and weren't just a fluke sighting. So today with my camera, I studied and captured them. How wonderful!
The female looks like a sparrow, but with a touch of blue on the tail, the book says. It was interesting to hear three of them. That means they have young ones! I got near the base of the cedar by the pondlane, and the female got quite agitated and flew back and forth across the lane, so I must have been close to the nest.
I walked along with my cameras and filmed the lovely growth of the willow plants. They are doing so well now! The grass is trying to come up through the end of the pond lane, though.