April 13, 2007 5:38 PM
Meet my neighborly cardinal
I love cardinals. Actually, I love birds. Tripp - who likes to speak my love language - has surrounded our house with birdfeeders to bring wild birds to me. There are a couple in the tree outside my office window, where yesterday, I enjoyed watching this little guy:
Just thought I'd share because cardinals aren't found everywhere and I was so thrilled when I returned to Virginia from California almost five years ago to have them in my life again.
Comments
Golly! I thought our Blue jays were exotic enough, but red has always been my favourite colour.
Cheers
Posted by: mcewen | April 13, 2007 9:48 PM
I love cardinals! Saw a couple about two weeks ago. It has been cold for a week here so we have not seen as many birds. My husband is putting feeders out for me. I hope to see hummingbirds often this year. We also get an occasional woodpecker and plenty of dark-eyed juncos and wrens.
Posted by: momoffour | April 14, 2007 12:18 AM
When I lived in Louisiana it seemed as though there were cardinals everywhere. I use to say there were more cardinals in louisiana than at the vatican. *snort*
Here in the desert of california I don't see too many birds.
Posted by: paigeu | April 14, 2007 1:20 AM
When my boys were dyeing eggs last weekend, they all named each egg. R8's two special ones were the cardinal egg and the bluejay egg.
Posted by: TulipGirl | April 14, 2007 1:55 AM
we live in southern illinois where blue jays, cardinals, redbirds, and sparrows are plentiful. My mother loves birds and has tons of bird feeders in her yard. I feel so lucky to live where I do.
Posted by: angela | April 14, 2007 11:01 AM
I still remember the extreme shock I felt when I saw a blaze of red streak across a dull landscape. I thought, "was that a cardinal?" I later realized it was so. It was very dramatic, and it was in. . .Virginia!
Posted by: Marie | April 14, 2007 1:24 PM
Yes, I love cardinals too. I have a great many of them around our house. Like you I have tons of bird feeders all around, especially close to the many windows of our house so no matter which window I look out I can catch a glimpse of a bird or two. lately, I've seen a lot of Waxwings and have been surprised by how many of them are hanging around. but those other birds in the picture, cow birds as we call them, are mean, mean, mean. I always run them off when they come flying in by the droves. Did you know that they do not nest? They lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, tossing out the eggs of the original nester to raise them - and their favorite nest and favorite egg to toss is the Robin egg, as it looks most like the egg of their own. Sad? isn't it? We have many Robin nests around and I prefer them over the cowbird.
Posted by: the SmockLady | April 15, 2007 9:35 AM
I love to look at cardinals too, here in Ohio. I like their little stoic black faces. The cardinal is our state bird (looks like it is yours, too!), and is on the logo of my daughter's digital academy, OHVA.
Posted by: Valerie | April 15, 2007 1:14 PM
He is SO beautiful Barbara!!! I just recently started to take more interest in birds, as we are homeschooling, and just started a bird study from www.amblesideonline.org It's interesting how homeschooling gets me more excited about learning.
If you have any tips about kid friendly bird feeders, I'd love to hear them!!!
Blessings to you today Barbara. I sure do appreciate you and this site!
Lisa
Posted by: Lisa | April 15, 2007 4:57 PM
