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Decked out in its brilliant crimson plumage, this cardinal was belting out its song and trying to woo a mate.
Loud and proud :)
I usually don't post many songbirds, but liked the way this female Cardinal was framed in the grasses...
I can believe I took this one in February! I guess soon we will be seeing snow and ice again here is PA, but today we reached the 61 F again and had some rain most of the morning. The winter birds are coming back, for instance the Junco is starting to appear under the feeders, which is usually one of the things that I enjoy about them they always remember were there is food and shelter, and I'm glad that my house is one of them.
Cardinals pretty much stay all year-round here in PA, and they are shyest of all, but manage to forget their fears when they are really hungry, specially during the winter months, as you can see in this picture. This spring the female cardinal was fighting with her own reflection, and I had to come and kind of chased her away to prevent her getting hurt, she was coming back again and again!
If you want to know more about this bird, here is a site that I like too:
www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/northern-cardinal
And talking about red...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt2YIpZWBqA
Have a wonderful Friday everyone!
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A young cardinal takes a short break from searching for food, enjoying the shade on a sunny Easter Sunday.
There isn't much to say about the smallest of the dragonflies in this half of the state except that the male is the reddest of all the dragons I've ever seen. (The female is a dull red, but with no orange as I've found with the Flame skimmer.) Normally, when those of your who are "into" Ordonata, the terms "meadowhawk" conjures up a large insect like the golden female Variegated Meadowhawk. The name alone is twice as long and the insect ate least a third larger than the Cardinal.
What caught my eye about this particular Cardinal was the perch which is the green Horsetail Grass and the indistinct pink/red flowers as a background. It may be may favorite over all Dragonfly image taken 10 years after my first successful ordonata shot (which numbered well over 100 attempts.
Voici la preuve que la beauté vient avec l'âge ! : )))
Here is proof that beauty comes with age! :)))
Northern Cardinal.
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A lovely lady and year round visitor, this beauty is waiting for a turn to get something from the flat feeder located towards the back of the yard. Recently I purchased a new seed, nut and berry mix and started putting it in that feeder only. The cardinals as well as the wrens, titmice and yellow throated warbler really love that mix. I sure wish I had not tossed the packaging after transferring the mix to a tightly sealed bucket. I don't remember what it was called. Perhaps if I see it again I will remember :)
Have a wonderful week ahead and happy snapping.
La progéniture des oiseaux cherchent de nouveaux territoires vers le Nord.
Il y a 30 ans, il était quasi impossible de voir cet oiseau plus loin que Montréal...
The offspring of birds are seeking new territories to the north.
Thirty years ago, it was almost impossible to see this bird beyond Montreal ...
Cardinalis cardinalis - Northern Cardinal
www.oiseaux.net/oiseaux/cardinal.rouge.html
Jardin Botanique
Monsieur
The Red Comet: A True-ish Yard Tale
So I’m standing in my yard, minding my own business—probably wondering if squirrels have a secret HOA—when suddenly: WHOOSH. A red blur tears through the air and heads directly for my face.
This was not a leaf. This was not a drone. This was The Red Comet.
Not a nickname I gave him after the fact, but the only possible title for a Northern Cardinal who apparently woke up and chose chaos.
His crest? Glowing like a warning light on a 1987 Buick.
His wings? Flapping with the intensity of someone trying to shake a spider out of their hoodie.
His flight path? Direct. Unapologetic. Beak-to-nose proximity.
And yes—I got the shot. Somehow, through sheer luck, divine intervention, or possibly fear paralysis, I captured a photo as this feathered fireball zoomed straight at me. His eyes locked onto mine with the fierce confidence of a bird who pays no taxes and answers to no one. It’s less “wildlife photography” and more “documented avian confrontation.”
He flared, flapped, and vanished into the yucca with the elegance of a Red Bull–fueled rocket. I stood there blinking, slightly windburned, with the very real sense that I had just been publicly scolded by a bird.
Some say cardinals bring messages from the beyond.
Mine brought velocity.
And for those who question whether this moment was truly poetic, I present the following:
The Red Comet
by Someone Who Was Almost Peaked in the Face
His crest aglow, his wings a-flopit,
He zunders through the yucca tropit.
He flaps with fizzity speed and pomp it—
The blur you see… The Red Comet.