...and now for the Cardinals / myLot

By JJ

February 27, 2017 11:52am CST

The birds are cooperating...they must have heard I got the new camera and are coming by to pose for me.

I get large flocks of cardinals around dawn and dusk, but this pair showed up a few minutes ago. The female is on the left, the male on the right. I don't know if they bond the way doves do, but I very seldom see them singularly, they always seem to show up in matched pairs.

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Laurel (L_B)

@Happy2BeMe (99380)

• Canada

27 Feb 17

They are such beautiful birds and the red is so vibrant. A few more cool shots with your new camera!!

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PinkCashmereYarn

@bluerubymoon53 (3286)

• United States

27 Feb 17

Nice! When will the blue jays be showing up for their meal??

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@JolietJake (50190)

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27 Feb 17

I need to get a mix they like better, something with more sunflower seeds.

celticeagle

@celticeagle (175834)

• Boise, Idaho

28 Feb 17

I wonder about the cardinals too. I also wonder if I will ever see one except in pictures.

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Jani

@jhechorain (1198)

• Susanville, California

1 Mar 17

Very pretty! You have a place full of birds. We do too but usually just blue jays and sometimes sparrows... One year we did have a pair of turkeys during the winter coming back all of the season.

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Jekca

@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

28 Feb 17

i though cardinals did too, but not sure

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (356254)

• Rockingham, Australia

28 Feb 17

I love your cardinals. They are just so..... RED! and all over, not just bits here and there.

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Always smiling

@allknowing (147594)

• India

28 Feb 17

Your camera is indeed fit for the birds. May be a slide show when you have said 'enough is enough'?

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Oshy

@TiarasOceanView (70022)

• United States

27 Feb 17

Hi JJ.

I can tell you are really enjoying your new toy

As well as that, we are too

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Juliaacv

@Juliaacv (53785)

• Canada

27 Feb 17

Cardinals are funny birds. My husband used to have a black car, that I detested, but he loved. We gave it to our son to use for a year while he took a grad course near our home. And it had to be left outside as we only have a 2-car garage. We used to have a cardinal come along and perch on the window ledge and look at himself in the side-view mirror. And he'd sit there for an hour at a time, looking at himself and pecking at the reflection in the mirror. And he'd leave his bird droppings all over the door of the car-it was so funny!