Indigo blues...

I love the indigo buntings...one of the shyest birds in the garden but lucky for me they like to take a bath like everyone else.

I did a little reading on them and they are the bluest of all our blue birds and they are known for their sweet songs.

Edward Howe Forbush, a famous New England ornithologist in the early twentieth century, effused: "The male seems to delight in singing during the hottest part of the summer days, when other birds are resting in the shade. He will sing his way from the bottom of a tree to the top, going up branch by branch until he has reached the topmost spire, and there, fully exposed to the blazing sun, he will sing and sing and sing."

Indeed! A male indigo bunting will utter as many as 680 songs an hour if he's looking for a mate. That's one amazing fact!