My work has me visiting customers in NE Ohio that are usually in
industrial parks.
Interestingly I have two customers that have indigo buntings singing
outside their offices this year.
Both sing from narrow bands of trees that separate large areas of
pavement. Neither site has much in the way of brushy fields
immediately nearby. One of the birds is probably a return from last
year.
There is another indigo bunting that has been singing from trees on
the edge of the local high school football field. A good sized
patch of woods in nearby but no brushy fields. Another is singing
from trees in a new development with only a couple acre patch of woods
nearby. I have seen more indigo buntings this year than in quite a
while. I hope the cow birds leave them alone!
I suggest that listening for birds just about anywhere you go might
yield some surprising finds.

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