Indigo bunting

Indigo bunting
Photo of indigo bunting courtesy of Jennifer Even Melton

The indigo buntings have been offering bright flashes of blue from dawn to dusk as they breed in the Brushy Fork field area. They seem to enjoy serenading passersby with their lively, high-pitched, bouncy songs that have earned them the nickname “blue canaries.”

Reporting from The Edge of Appalachia in Berea, Kentucky