The Indigo Bunting is a beautiful neotropical migrant that is fairly common in the summers in the East Coast. The Indigo Bunting's blue color is structural and not due to pigment in the feathers. Therefore at a distance they appear black. They look very different as the light changes. When using flash in the sun, the Indigo Bunting lights up differently:   (Click) . When using flash on a cloudy day, he lights up in electric blue:   (Click). At Lafitte's cove, a migrant trap on Galveston Island, tired Indigo Buntings that have crossed the Gulf during spring migration can be seen under fall out conditions drinking nectar from flowering Bottlebrush. The red flowers with the striking blue makes for a great shot: (Click).

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