Showing posts with label male cardinal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label male cardinal. Show all posts

Saturday, December 31, 2016

Ten Seconds


There will be plenty of people counting down the seconds to the new year tonight. 
Since I hope to be sound asleep by then, here's my own countdown a little early--
10 of my favorite animal sightings of 2016:


Fox Kit

10. Fox Kit


Wood Duck

9. Wood Duck


Eastern Chipmunk

8. Eastern Chipmunk


Eastern White-tailed Fawn

7. White-tailed Fawn


Eastern Wild Turkey

6. Eastern Wild Turkey


Raccoon

5. Raccoon


Monarch Chrysalis

4. Monarch Chrysalis


White-tailed buck

3.White-tailed Buck


Male Cardinal

2. Male Cardinal


Golden Retriever

1. Golden Retriever, Barley


Happy New Year!



Linking with Saturday's Critters



Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Terrific Hieroglyphic





It's cold out, the snow still falling, but Cardinals brighten even the grayest days.





Through the trees, as far as the opposite goal post,

their neon color catches our attention.




The female waits for spring when, instead of chasing them away,

the males will be offering little gifts of food.




What do the birds mean, 

with their hieroglyphics in the snow?




This one, at least, we know.




Linking with Wild Bird Wednesday

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Winter Home




A chattering noise drew my attention to the front porch the other day.  

A Carolina Wren peered out from between the logs of the wood pile.




Carolina Wren on Woodpile


It flitted around the stack of wood looking for some juicy morel to eat, then paused to preen.


Carolina Wren on sunflower seed head

Carolina wrens have made themselves at home on our front porch over the years, often raising their young in an old basket that hangs there.  Three years ago, when I hung a sunflower seed head from the porch eves to feed the birds, the titmice cleaned out every seed, but two wrens made their winter shelter in the small cavity in the underside of the seed head.

They came the following winter, and last week, when the weather turned cold, they were back again, flying in at dusk to tuck into their winter home.


Carolina Wren on woodpile

It's nice to think of providing shelter for these pert little beauties,

but if we think about property rights,

their forebears were probably here long before we were.


Carolina Wren



Linking with Wild Bird Wednesday




Male Cardinal


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