Very satisfying!
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Que bonitos. Beautiful creatures.
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If it is AI you can at least revel in Snotbot
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Can you blame them?!
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The house finches (Haemorhous mexicanus; field guide says Carpodacus mexicanus) are hogging the feeder today.
(Actually I’m not certain whether one is a female house finch, or some other finch)
Or, they were hogging it, until a cardinal showed up:
The cardinals never eat directly from the feeder; theyll scrounge around in the tray underneath (or on the ground below), but not directly from the tubes.
Last year a house finch kept fighting with its own reflection in the brass kickplate on the front door; I finally had to paper over it. Cardinals will do the same, but in a window.
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The cardinal is so red. Very beautiful bird.
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They mate for life, and return to the same place to nest each year.
In our part of the country, you know it’s spring for real when you see ‘your’ cardinal pair return to their bush.
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“Beautiful plumage”
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Soon there will be more!
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Quite kingfisher-esque, that one!
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I’ve watched a male cardinal courting and feeding his chosen lady by taking a seed from the feeder, flying over to the branch where she was perched and passing it to her. At one point, he forgot that he had a seed in his beak, and she had to reach over and tug it out of his beak. I don’t know how the rest of the date went, or if she made an excuse to go to the bathroom and ditch him.
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after yesterday’s splashdown return of the stranded ISS astronauts being upstaged by those “cute as fuck/ jerky as hell” creatures known as dolphins, let us remind ourselves that they are wild animals - and while they are vastly more intelligent than we even know - they are not exactly friendly and are vulnerable when inured to human interaction.
don’t do that.
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