Northern Cardinals - Blue Jays - Indigo Buntings

[corgi]

Indigo Bunting

Mirror Mirror On The Wall....

More of Wife's Artwork. This one is on display at our
local small town library. She did this one from one of my pics

House Finch and Indigo Bunting
Can You Hear Me Now?

How About Now?

American Goldfinch - Pine Siskin - Indigo Bunting

Blue Jay In Hand.
Got to be worth two in the bush.

Cardinal & Blue Jay

Blue Jay & Bunny

 

[JRS]

Great pics! You hand tamed the jay gradually ?

 

[j.w]

Wowser again, so pretty, all of them and how'd ya get that bird in your hand?

 

[corgi]

Great pics! You hand tamed the jay gradually ?

Wowser again, so pretty, all of them and how'd ya get that bird in your hand?

It was a window crash rescue that my wife held in her hand for about 20 mins before it flew off. Always nice to see them fly off.
I just did it with a junco. My guess with the bluejay is that hawks will make a strafing run at them and they fly off in all directions.
Sometimes into a window that they are normally very aware of.

 

[Wayfarin]

Great pictures! We get blue jays, cardinals, goldfinches, and pine siskins at our backyard feeders. I would love to see an indigo bunting in our yard, and maybe one day I will.

 

[addy1]

We had indigo buntings show up xx years ago, they are so neat to see. Read they love edge woods, we have a lot of woods.

 

[Wayfarin]

We had indigo buntings show up xx years ago, they are so neat to see. Read they love edge woods, we have a lot of woods.

I've read that they love open brushy areas and weedy areas near woodland edges, which we have a lot of in our town.
We have goldenrods and tall grasses all around our property, and I expect that I will eventually see one of these buntings if we keep our feeders stocked from April-May. Also, I'm hoping to leave some "weeds" in our yard for them to forage from.

Someone else in our town has reported a sighting of one.