Indigo Bunting Feeders
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Indigo bunting feeders. Enjoy your beautiful birds and happy birding. Fill your feeder with nyjer seed or whole sunflower hearts or sprinkle a few mealworms in a hanging hopper or platform feeder to attract indigo buntings to your backyard. Because indigo buntings tend to be shy at feeders choose a caged tube feeder to protect these beauties from larger birds. Its brilliant blue color accompanied by its unique song make the indigo bunting a highly prized wild bird.
It is a small bird with short conical beak and blue grey to black legs and feet. We have also put together a list of fun indigo bunting t shirts indigo bunting bird patches bird houses bird feeders binoculars stickers and other fun bird watching items. Since the indigo bunting tends to be timid at feeders opt to caged tube feeders that will protect the bird from bigger birds. Written by dawn coutu.
Fill the feeders with nyjer seeds or sunflower seeds. Nyjer seed millet and sometimes mealworms hulled sunflower seed. The adult male is brilliant dark blue all over with an almost purple crown. Insects seeds small fruits insects are primary food source while breeding and in summer will visit bird feeders prefers.
Indigo buntings eat mostly insects with seeds and fruit for variety. Indigo bunting eating habits. I knew that we get buntings each year but they stay in the ravine. I m going to try and find some millet to add to the seed mixture so it will be easier for him to find what he likes.
Below are some tips to help you identify indigo buntings. Indigo buntings also eat many insects so live mealworms may attract them as well. These will help you entice the indigo bunting to visit and stay in your backyard. We had an indigo bunting at our feeder three times this week.
Indigo bunting about the indigo bunting. There s more about feeding birds at our attract birds pages. He seems to really be sorting through the seeds before he picks something. A indigo bunting is a fun bird to see while bird watching.
You may also add some mealworms placed in the hanging hoppers or platform feeders.