This photo was taken in: Canada
This photo was taken with: Canon 400D & 100-400mm
Notes on this photo: We took our regular three weeks of vacation in North Hatley on the lake. Almost daily, we went birding along the bicycle path. The Indigo Bunting is not that rare but very hard to spot without binoculars because of its dark colour. The camera also has difficulty. My success rate was pretty low over the three days that we saw him. This fellow was singing his heart out over the same few 100 meters near the path and that’s how we spotted him.

The photo was taken by: Herman Lawetz ,

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