Male head black, chest, rump, sides rusty orange, wing white patches. Female
pictured) head striped brown, buffy orange below. Song sweet, fast warble.
The Indigo bunting eats a variety of insects and weedseeds. At feeders it
particularly likes peanuts, millets and other seeds. It makes a nest of grasses,
leaves and hair near the ground. Its call is a sharp tsick.
Its song is a series of double notes: sweet-sweet, where-where,
here-here, see-it see-it.
MR reports: observed at spring in park, and in Cerrillos fall 2002 & May 2003.
The Rose-breasted grosbeak eats seeds, blossoms, buds, and insects such as beetles,
tent caterpillars and gypsy moths. It prefers sunflower seeds on a platform feeder.
The nest is built in thickets or low trees of loosely woven sticks, twigs, and straw,
lined with grasses and rootlets. Its voice is similar to that of the robin, a
long continuous liquid carol.
LS reports: recorded
MR reports: a Spring migrant through the Hills. Observed in the village in Spring
2002 and 2003, and in the hills in 2003.
Sighted at the
Ortiz Mountains Educational Preserve (an isolated high mountain group --
7,000 to 9,000 feet elevation -- eight miles south of Cerrillos.)
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