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Cardinals - Post Yours!

Jeff WX1USN

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I am starting a Cardinal thread. Here in New England there are not that many really colorful birds, the Cardinal is one of them.

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Love love love them. A whole flock in a wintery tree, what a sight that is! And that first pic, he looks so cold. Harsh conditions for a bird. They must be pretty strong to survive that. I'm surprised they don't migrate to warmer places.
 
First for me as well, the most I had seen before was 3 pairs at once

I've never even seen a pair around here. I've only ever seen a single bird, and those are just maybe once a year, if that.
 
I've never even seen a pair around here. I've only ever seen a single bird, and those are just maybe once a year, if that.

We get 1 to 2 pairs every day year round, actually spoiled when it comes to Cardinals. Orioles on the other hand are about once a year
 
I'd actually forgotten about this until I saw this thread, but I was able to find this in my phone's camera roll. I took this photo almost five years ago. This is right next to our front door at work. This bird actually flew right into the front door. When I went to see what that loud bang was, this little guy/gal was sitting there. I thought it was going to sucumb to injury, but it did eventually fly away on its own. Luckily it was dazed enough that I was able to get up close to it for these photos. Please excuse the "droppings", but the poor thing had to be terrified!

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I'd actually forgotten about this until I saw this thread, but I was able to find this in my phone's camera roll. I took this photo almost five years ago. This is right next to our front door at work. This bird actually flew right into the front door. When I went to see what that loud bang was, this little guy/gal was sitting there. I thought it was going to sucumb to injury, but it did eventually fly away on its own. Luckily it was dazed enough that I was able to get up close to it for these photos. Please excuse the "droppings", but the poor thing had to be terrified!

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Sweet pics, Mike. Glass windows/doors, lots of birds die flying into it. I'm glad this one recovered.

This is one bird I wish we had here. They're so beautiful, especially the females.
 
I am very lucky we have cardinals every day 2 to 3 pairs once in a while more! Of course it costs a ton to keep them fed with black oil sunflower seeds we also have a heated bird bath/water for them all the time
 
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