Ugly Ducking

Don’t worry little one. Soon you will be the most handsome bird in the meadow.

Tammie Rogers

This is a juvenile Indigo Bunting. His magnificent indigo blue feathers are just coming in underneath the drab brown feathers in which he was fledged.

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I don’t know if she is his mother, but this is a female Indigo Bunting that I filmed on the same day as the youngster.

This is a male Indigo Bunting that I filmed several weeks ago.