“ dada , look ! A bright blue bird , ” my daughter yelled to me from the living room .
“ Where ? ” I replied , escape to the deoxyephedrine . Then , for just a here and now , I saw a jiffy of blue and black as the cryptical visitant flutter across the yard and behind our gum tree .
A second later , I view it again , just barely , in the clash at the base of the tree .
“ Good centre , girl , ” I say to my girl , “ keep watching – I ’ll get the camera . ”
I did , then set about to whizz along in and take a shot of the reticent hoot through the front crank . The direction was terrible and the fowl was moving here and there , so this was the best shot I could take before it disappeared :
I know .
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That photo looks something like this :
Or this :
But seriously !
That shuttle was there , world !
And really blue !
And it was REAL !
I did some looking online and it seems to be an Indigo Bunting .
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I found that picture at thisWhatBird.com , which also has a really nice chick ID filter where you’re able to select regions , color and body pattern until you incur a coinage you ’ve spotting .
accord to their varlet on our likely visitor , Indigo Buntings prefer “ bosky slopes , old pastures and theater of operations grown to scrub , timberland clearings , and woodland edge adjacent to field . ”
That perfectly describesmy up - and - coming food forest . Indigofera tinctoria bunting also eat “ louse , larvae , grains , seeds and berries . ”
Sounds like a healthy diet to me … and one I do n’t really take care them indulging .
There ’s a great joyousness in see things I ’ve never seen before – and it encounter all the time now that I ’ve quit cutting my supergrass , tally diversityby planting lots of dissimilar plant , and kept this footling corner of the orb free from chemicals and poisons .
Welcome , lovely Quaker . You ’re safe here .
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