It’s one of those cool, misty mornings in late July. I am awakened at 5:30 by a sweet song in the nearby prairie—the paired notes of an Indigo Bunting.
The Indigo Bunting, cerulean on its body and a brilliant indigo on its head, is one of my favorite birds to introduce to beginning birders. Their loud, colorful, and puts on a show during the spring and summer months when it calls Wisconsin home.
From mid-December through mid-March is the time to visit the Arlington Empire Prairie area around Goose Pond Sanctuary to search for arctic winter birds.