Cardinals - The unofficial Cardinal thread

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

I wanted to start the Cardinal thread again after having it on PoTN. Lets see them!

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

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[ChuckMiller]

_MG_1975-Edit by Chuck Miller, on Flickr

 

[ChuckMiller]

_MG_7431-Edit by Chuck Miller, on Flickr

 

[ChuckMiller]

_MG_7426-Edit by Chuck Miller, on Flickr

 

[ChuckMiller]

_MG_7265-Edit by Chuck Miller, on Flickr

 

[ChuckMiller]

_MG_6924-Edit by Chuck Miller, on Flickr

 

[Kandor]

An oldie.

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

Hiding in plain sight

 

[BirdsofBC]

fun fact: there's only 3 kinds of cardinals!

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

fun fact: there's only 3 kinds of cardinals!

Male Female and what? LOL

 

[Bill in Texas]

Pyrrhuloxia Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Dapper in looks and cheerful in song, the Pyrrhuloxia is a tough-as-nails songbird of baking hot deserts in the American Southwest and northern Mexico. They’re closely related to Northern Cardinals, but they are a crisp gray and red, with a longer, elegant crest and a stubby, parrotlike yellow...

www.allaboutbirds.org

 

[ChuckMiller]

fun fact: there's only 3 kinds of cardinals!

Well do tell.

 

[AlgiersAnnie]

_MG_6924-Edit by Chuck Miller, on Flickr

Looks like the old man telling the kids to get off of his lawn - LOL!

 

[4huskers]

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

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Definitely "get off my lawn"

 

[ChuckMiller]

Looks like the old man telling the kids to get off of his lawn - LOL!

I named him Mr. Grumpy.

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

 

[Jeff USN Photog 72-76]

in the garden
5D classic EF 100-400L ii, 1/250 f/5.6 ISO 400 371mm

 

[Greyswan]

Great photos, folks. My cardinals always look like Mick Jagger the day after a bender - for some reason I can never get a 'pretty' picture of them!