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Post by Die Fledermaus on Apr 15, 2008 22:55:03 GMT -4
Saw this today in Brooklyn's Botanic Garden. I was pretty lucky to get this close to this lovely male cardinal. I am still looking for the photo I took early on January at the New York Botanic Garden: a bright red cardinal sitting on a big holly bush dusted with snow! It was like a postcard. It is somewhere. . . soon!  |
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Post by Hamsters82 on Apr 15, 2008 22:59:33 GMT -4
Pretty Cardinal. We have one at Paws and I saw two Blue Jays the other day.
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Apr 15, 2008 23:08:15 GMT -4
She was very nervous and flitting about. I followed her to a number of locations to get that.
Take some photos at Paws.
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Post by Hamsters82 on Apr 15, 2008 23:09:07 GMT -4
I know, I will try to Saturday when the equine vet comes. Hopefully it won't rain as it's predicting.
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Apr 15, 2008 23:33:03 GMT -4
It was a perfect Spring sunny day today without a cloud. I got great reflections off the water of the lake and ponds. Good luck Saturday! I want to see a lot of horse teeth! ;D
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Post by Lillith Rose on Apr 16, 2008 21:29:56 GMT -4
i love that picture! here we have blue jays, cardinals, robins and many other birds around now that winter is over
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Post by pinky on Apr 17, 2008 17:52:12 GMT -4
DF--are you sure it was a female? It looks too red to be a female. It also looks like it has a significant black mask. Females have very little mask compared to the male.
Males do vary in coloration--some are brilliant red, and others look somewhat washed out. However, at this time of year they should be pretty spiffy--it's time to impress the girls!
What do you think?
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Apr 17, 2008 19:33:08 GMT -4
The back half is brown. I thought males were all red.  Regardless, I thought it a very pretty photo, one hard to get. |
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Post by pinky on Apr 18, 2008 20:57:38 GMT -4
They're most red toward the front and are less so on the wings--the wings can look light red/gray. If there was a significant mask then it was a male.
But yes, I can appreciate the difficulty of getting that photo. Cardinals are not at all tolerant of people, that is, nothing like pigeons or chickadees or house sparrows or starlings.
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Apr 18, 2008 21:38:19 GMT -4
But at least some males are all bright red! We all have seen them. I once nearby at huge adjacent (to the garden) Prospect Park saw even closer a blue jay at work. He was using a flat rock to break open some food (peanuts? I forget). He would slam the food against it so it opened. Jays are in the crow/raven family and thus are quite smart. I have seen Egyptian eagles do that with the rock. Male or female??  Female:  Male:  |
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