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Susann Myers has an Indigo Bunting at her feeder in central Halifax, which was recorded for the Halifax-Dartmouth Christmas Bird Count. Fulton Lavender told me that this was the first time the species has been found on that count, which rather surprised me. Susann and I were speculating recently about the bird's chances of surviving the winter. I had the impression that they had successfully overwintered here. However, now that I check Blake's Birds of Winter list, I see that they have not made it to February, in the five years in which a "Depths of Winter" list was recorded. Ian McLaren's edition of Tufts (1986) indicates that the latest sighting of an Indigo Bunting in Nova Scotia was on the Halifax East Christmas Bird Count on 15 December 1979. Are there more recent winter dates for Indigo Buntings? Has one ever over-wintered? Patricia L. Chalmers Halifax
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