Sherry8
Wisconsin...zone 4
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| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:58 pm Post subject: My Most Favorite Bird..... THE CARDINAL........ |
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I have been in such delight to get this beauty up close to my patio window so I could see him often . We used to have 5 pairs at the last house and now again I can enjoy them up close...
Female Cardinal ( photo / image / picture from Sherry8's Garden )
Female cardinal ( photo / image / picture from Sherry8's Garden )
Cardinal ( photo / image / picture from Sherry8's Garden )
Cardinal ( photo / image / picture from Sherry8's Garden )
Cardinal ( photo / image / picture from Sherry8's Garden )
Cardinal ( photo / image / picture from Sherry8's Garden )
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eileen
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Scotland
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| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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Cardinals would be my favourite birds too Sherry if they were in my garden. They are such attractive birds, even the female with her muted colours. 
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Canadian Chelsea
Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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Nice close-ups, Sherry 
Isn't the first picture of a baby Cardinal? If you look at the wing, it is different from the female in the second photo. Looks like all her wing feathers haven't grown in yet. Plus the first one is more compact/fluffy. Mama Cardinal is sleek and trim.
Now you are making me wish I could take some close-ups of our Cardinals. *sigh* I need a new camera.
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dooley
Texas
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| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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I love cardinals, too. There are a lot of them here BUT cardinals are like butterflies. If I point my camera at them they are long gone. They sit on the post out by the garden in the evening and sing. When I wake up I can hear them out there. They were so beautiful against that ground covering snow we had in the winter. dooley
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Netty
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Southern Ontario zone 5a
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| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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Great shots as always Sherry. I love the Cardinal's too, but only had one here this year.
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kuntrygal
Texas ~ Zone 8
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| Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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Beautiful pictures as always. I have several males around here, but if I have seen the female, I didn't know it. I always thought they were both red. Again, I learned something new today. Thanks for sharing your terrific shots.
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daisybeans
annapolis md
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| Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:03 am Post subject: |
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Wonderful! I kind of like the female coloring too. I think I just don't have the patience to photograph birds, but I surely do enjoy everyone else's. I can watch them out the window in the figs though. The cardinals love the fruit when it's ripe.
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Sherry8
Wisconsin...zone 4
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| Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:58 am Post subject: |
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Chelsea...It could be a baby....I did notice the difference but I had so many pictures of all of them that day..
Thank you everyone...the male is by far my favorite but I love it when they come together and he sits in a tree or on something while she eats....he never eats at that time just follows her when she leaves...such a gentlemen.
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