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Male cardinal pays a visit

I have managed to get photos of the female cardinal on the deck before, but the male is much more nervous and so any movement from us and he is off. However Chris managed to get a couple of pics yesterday.

We also have lots of squirrels about and they are all losing their winter coats and replacing it with finer, thiner summer coats. Trouble is they all look really tatty at the moment.

We have also seen the return of some of our other birds such as the towhee pictured below and the grosbeaks and also the thrashers. Of course there are always blue jays.

Our beautiful cardinal

We have a pair of cardinals in our garden who we see every day. The male often feeds the female on the deck by picking up seed and passing it from his beak to hers – aahhh!

Here are a few pics I took of he female yesterday, she is beautiful. I will try to get the male and hopefully some of them together soon.