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In late August 2024 an invite-only open day was held at Xelabus of Eastleigh to mark the opening of their new maintenance facility in Barton Park. The new facility was officially opened by Fred Dinenage of TV fame (ITV Southern and How!) and were treated to a building tour and shown examples of their fleet, some of which were brand new.
Blijkbaar werd er op en rond het station niet al te strak aan de regels vastgehouden: een 2400 met een rangeerdeel aan de haak steekt met open bomen het overpad over....Langs het perron staat een mat'64 in oeruitvoering: let op de deuren en de grote rolfilm- die overigens blanco toont. Dat was eenvoudiger dan dat de conducteur zich een lamme arm draaide aan de handbediende bestemmingsrol....
Wie weet of we hier met een tweetje, danwel een vier van doen hebben wordt van harte uitgenodigd dat hier te melden...
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Northern Cardinal
The male Northern Cardinal is perhaps responsible for getting more people to open up a field guide than any
other bird. They’re a perfect combination of familiarity, conspicuousness, and style: a shade of red you can’t
take your eyes off. Even the brown females sport a sharp crest and warm red accents. Cardinals don’t migrate and
they don’t molt into a dull plumage, so they’re still breathtaking in winter’s snowy backyards. In summer, their
sweet whistles are one of the first sounds of the morning.
Songs
Both male and female Northern Cardinals sing. The song is a loud string of clear down-slurred or two-parted
whistles, often speeding up and ending in a slow trill. The songs typically last 2 to 3 seconds. Syllables can
sound like the bird is singing cheer, cheer, cheer or birdie, birdie, birdie. Males in particular may sing
throughout the year, though the peak of singing is in spring and early summer.
Calls
Scientists have described at least 16 different calls for the Northern Cardinal, but the one you’ll hear most
commonly is a loud, metallic chip. Cardinals make this call when warning off intruders to their territory, when
predators are near, as females approach their nests, and by both sexes as they carry food to the nest or when
trying to get nestlings to leave the nest. When one member of a pair is about to feed the other, either bird may
make a softer took note.
Cool Facts
Only a few female North American songbirds sing, but the female Northern Cardinal does, and often while sitting
on the nest. This may give the male information about when to bring food to the nest. A mated pair shares song
phrases, but the female may sing a longer and slightly more complex song than the male.
Many people are perplexed each spring by the sight of a cardinal attacking its reflection in a window, car
mirror, or shiny bumper. Both males and females do this, and most often in spring and early summer when they are
obsessed with defending their territory against any intruders. Birds may spend hours fighting these intruders
without giving up. A few weeks later, as levels of aggressive hormones subside, these attacks should end (though
one female kept up this behavior every day or so for six months without stopping).
The male cardinal fiercely defends its breeding territory from other males. When a male sees its reflection in
glass surfaces, it frequently will spend hours fighting the imaginary intruder.
A perennial favorite among people, the Northern Cardinal is the state bird of seven states.
The oldest recorded Northern Cardinal was a female, and was 15 years, 9 months old when she was found in
Pennsylvania.
Habitat
Open Woodland
Look for Northern Cardinals in dense shrubby areas such as forest edges, overgrown fields, hedgerows, backyards,
marshy thickets, mesquite, regrowing forest, and ornamental landscaping. Cardinals nest in dense foliage and
look for conspicuous, fairly high perches for singing. Growth of towns and suburbs across eastern North America
has helped the cardinal expand its range northward.
Food
Seeds
Northern Cardinals eat mainly seeds and fruit, supplementing these with insects (and feeding nestlings mostly
insects). Common fruits and seeds include dogwood, wild grape, buckwheat, grasses, sedges, mulberry, hackberry,
blackberry, sumac, tulip-tree, and corn. Cardinals eat many kinds of birdseed, particularly black oil sunflower
seed. They also eat beetles, crickets, katydids, leafhoppers, cicadas, flies, centipedes, spiders, butterflies,
and moths.
Nesting
Nesting Facts
Clutch Size
2–5 eggs
Number of Broods
1-2 broods
Egg Length
0.9–1.1 in
2.2–2.7 cm
Egg Width
0.7–0.8 in
1.7–2 cm
Incubation Period
11–13 days
Nestling Period
7–13 days
Egg Description
Grayish white, buffy white, or greenish white speckled with pale gray to brown.
Condition at Hatching
Naked except for sparse tufts of grayish down, eyes closed, clumsy.
Nest Description
Males sometimes bring nest material to the female, who does most of the building. She crushes twigs with her
beak until they’re pliable, then turns in the nest to bend the twigs around her body and push them into a cup
shape with her feet. The cup has four layers: coarse twigs (and sometimes bits of trash) covered in a leafy mat,
then lined with grapevine bark and finally grasses, stems, rootlets, and pine needles. The nest typically takes
3 to 9 days to build; the finished product is 2-3 inches tall, 4 inches across, with an inner diameter of about
3 inches. Cardinals usually don’t use their nests more than once.
Nest Placement
Shrub
A week or two before the female starts building, she starts to visit possible nest sites with the male following
along. The pair call back and forth and hold nesting material in their bills as they assess each site. Nests
tend to be wedged into a fork of small branches in a sapling, shrub, or vine tangle, 1-15 feet high and hidden
in dense foliage. They use many kinds of trees and shrubs, including dogwood, honeysuckle, hawthorn, grape,
redcedar, spruce, pines, hemlock, rose bushes, blackberry brambles, elms, sugar maples, and box elders.
Ground Forager
Northern Cardinals hop through low branches and forage on or near the ground. Cardinals commonly sing and preen
from a high branch of a shrub. The distinctive crest can be raised and pointed when agitated or lowered and
barely visible while resting. You typically see cardinals moving around in pairs during the breeding season, but
in fall and winter they can form fairly large flocks of a dozen to several dozen birds. During foraging, young
birds give way to adults and females tend to give way to males. Cardinals sometimes forage with other species,
including Dark-eyed Juncos, White-throated Sparrows, other sparrow species, Tufted Titmice, goldfinches, and
Pyrrhuloxias. They fly somewhat reluctantly on their short, round wings, taking short trips between thickets
while foraging. Pairs may stay together throughout winter, but up to 20 percent of pairs split up by the next
season.
Conservation
status via IUCN
Least Concern
Northern Cardinal populations slightly increased between 1966 and 2014, according to the North American Breeding
Bird Survey. Partners in Flight estimates a global breeding population of 120 million with 77% living in the
U.S., and 22% in Mexico. They rate a 5 out of 20 on the Continental Concern Score and are not on the 2014 State
of the Birds Watch List. The expansion of people and their backyards over the last two centuries has been good
for cardinals. However, habitat loss in southeastern California, at the edge of the cardinal’s range, may cause
the disappearance of the cardinal population there.
2017-01-15: One of the photos taken the other day when I visited the Milwaukee County Zoo. Stella took a big, large yawn as shown here. I was hoping to make a trip down to see the bald eagles on the Mississippi this weekend but ended fighting a bug that has knocked me out the last couple of days.
Nikkor 70-200mm @ 135mm, 1/125s, f/3.5, ISO 3200.
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May2025.
501 Club in East Little Rock, Arkansas USA.
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