Indigo Bunting

nanny_56 · Post by **nanny_56** » May 23, 2008 10:50 am

Just had to post a couple pics!

nanny_56 · Post by **nanny_56** » May 26, 2008 12:19 pm

A few new pics

Spider · Post by **Spider** » May 26, 2008 12:35 pm

Great photos! You really captured the metallic blue on him. I don't know how you are capturing these little birds with that camera, I'm having trouble with the slow ones!

Tundra_Queen · Post by **Tundra_Queen** » May 27, 2008 7:09 am

Oh wow!! That bird is beautiful!!! I have never seen one before, only in books. We don't get fancy birds like that this far north...i sure wish we did!

nanny_56 · Post by **nanny_56** » May 27, 2008 9:41 am

Thanks!

Spider, These are through the(dirty) window and you do have to be quick to spot them, since they don't hang around long. Lots of the shots are deleted!

A piece of advice I read on another forum has helped a lot., now that I am trying to use it. That is to focus on the eye for birds. It is not 100% all the time...but I seem to be getting better shots now more often!

But from what I've seen you are doing great!

Spider · Post by **Spider** » May 27, 2008 6:11 pm

Thanks, I'll try that on the next heron or sandhill (they were right next to the curb on the driveway today, just watching the cars go by.

kHT · Post by **kHT** » May 27, 2008 7:50 pm

Isn't he a neat little guy??

LucyGoose · Post by **LucyGoose** » May 27, 2008 9:13 pm

I love these birds! How long did they stay around for you? One time, a few years back, there was a bunch that landed here. I mean a flock.....First time I had seen them......Un real! I called DH on the phone to tell him about them. When they left, that was it.....never seen them again......and I hear that a neighbor down a few doors saw them.....not me....

Thanks for sharing!!

nanny_56 · Post by **nanny_56** » May 28, 2008 10:48 am

They are here during the summer for breeding...not sure exactly when they will leave. Probably start leaving around August/Sept. We have lots of the around here, but just the one coming to the yard, right now anyway!

Can't imagine what a flock of them would look like...that would be a sight to behold!

PeggyC · Post by **PeggyC** » May 28, 2008 11:02 pm

I so love these little guys. One time I posted pictures on a bird forum and some guy from South America accused me of photoshopping them.

Thank goodness everyone else in the forum stood up for me.

LG, the indigos usually made an appearance at my house around mid April and then were usually gone sometime in late August.

Carol and Claudia, I bought and use a camo tent to take pictures of birds... although right now its still in Illinois in the horse trailer.

I would have as many as 10 at a time of them in the yard in Illinois and they were a sight!

Here's a couple I took in 2006 of Indigos.