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Chris Holden sent me a note of last evening's observation of INDIGO BUNTING seen at Butterfly Meadow.Its likely a floater, an unattached male, but you never know until one observes long enough and see if it's possible a breeder..I doubt it but who would have thought on the Hummingbirds?
Here's Chris's note:
Hi Peter,
I was taking a late evening stroll yesterday through the park, and
came across a noisy Indigo Bunting male in the Butterfly Meadow atop
Lookout Hill. I was curious as to whether they were normal summer
residents in Prospect Park, so I did a quick search using E-Bird. It
looks that as far as June-July reports go, there's been a few
sightings of a single Indigo Bunting in recent years:
2012- the sighting yesterday
2010- a checklist you submitted for July, part of Prospect Park not specified
2009- 2 checklists submitted for July by Alex Wilson, noted to be on
Lookout Hill both times, one time in the Butterfly Meadow, one time
noted to be a second year male.
Anyhow, it was a nice treat to run across him yesterday. I wonder if
it's all the same bird, who's been nice enough (I find it hard not to
anthropomorphize) to linger around Prospect Park for the past 4
summers (or at least put in an appearance in three of them) to add an
extra splash of color to the summer bird palette here.
Chris
