The buntings will linger until September or even October, then will depart for their wintering grounds in Central America and the West Indies. At this time of year, I hear and spot them regularly as I bike local country roads. They favor shrubby edges between open and wooded areas. You won’t see buntings in town but can expect to see and hear them in local natural areas, such as Citizens for Conservation’s Flint Creek Savanna and Grigsby Prairie, and Lake and Cook County forest preserves. The species is surprisingly common in the Barrington area. As the season progresses, you can recognize young males by the splotchy brown and blue plumage as their adult blue feathers begin to grow in.

Both birds have the short, conical bills of seedeaters and both have small, beady black eyes. They hardly look like a pair – the plumage is so completely different – until you notice that the size and shape are alike. During and after nest season, I often see the male and female together. Indigo buntings regularly visit bird feeders, especially in early spring when they first arrive, and sometimes in colorful association with goldfinches and rose-breasted grosbeaks. She is the sole incubator, leaving her mate free to serenade. It is built of coarse grasses and bark strips, lined with deer hair or fine grass, and contains usually three or four white eggs. While he sings ostentatiously, she tends the nest she has made in dense vegetation usually only a foot or two above the ground. She is unremarkable, a dull brown that is as drab as her mate’s color is vibrant. The female is an entirely different matter. It can appear dark, even blackish, from a distance but once you get binoculars on the bird, you gasp at the ultramarine blue, especially when illuminated by sunlight. It favors open perches, often at the top of a dead tree. Once you hear the song, it’s usually easy to locate the bird. The notes of Midwestern buntings (often quite different from those of their Eastern counterparts) are strong, evenly spaced and, if you listen closely, given in pairs and hopping up and down the musical scale. The song of the indigo bunting has a ringing quality that readily distinguishes it from other birds still singing at this time of year.

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