It's lovely that you have parkland so near. I should have taken a walk yesterday--today the weather is starting out gray.
I didn't know that the color of the male cardinal intensifies before mating time.
"My" cardinals were just outside my observation window and I note that his head is indeed redder than the rest of him.
I've had a pair of cardinals hanging around all winter. They don't (or can't because of their size) avail themselves of the hanging sparrow feeder so I put seed mix on the stone windowsill. I see the female much more often than the male. Her distinctive chirping at first light often prompts me to get up from my computer, throw on some clothes, and take out seed for the feeder and sill. She has me well trained.
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Date: 2005-03-20 03:31 pm (UTC)I didn't know that the color of the male cardinal intensifies before mating time.
"My" cardinals were just outside my observation window and I note that his head is indeed redder than the rest of him.
I've had a pair of cardinals hanging around all winter. They don't (or can't because of their size) avail themselves of the hanging sparrow feeder so I put seed mix on the stone windowsill. I see the female much more often than the male. Her distinctive chirping at first light often prompts me to get up from my computer, throw on some clothes, and take out seed for the feeder and sill. She has me well trained.