Too cold to stay out long but we are having up to 36 male cardinals at our feeders. Everywhere you look is a beautiful bird. Brrr. Keep your feeders full. Birds can sure use the help this time of year when natural food is at a low.
Oh WOW Bethie those cardinals are a fantastic colour!!! I'd love to have birds like that in my garden. Can I pinch the piccie please to email to my sons? They'll love it. :-D I feed 'my' birds all year round but only on natural foodstuff. Mixed seeds, peanuts that they have to peck at through a wire cage, (so that baby birds don't choke on full sized nuts) nyjer seeds and sunflower hearts. The only things that aren't completely natural are the fat balls and fat cakes I make for them during the winter months. I melt the fat and put in raisins, seeds, berries and dried insects and then stick them in the fridge to set. During the breeding season I even put out rehydrated meal worms for them. They're probably the best fed birds in the district!!!
Eileen, you can have any photo of mine you ever want. We feed year round also. It's great in summer when they all bring their babies to the feeders for the first time. Our American robins love to eat jelly this time of year. I pick poke berries and autumn olive berries in summer and freeze them for this time of year. My birds are very spoiled also. We have even had a few rare and unusual birds come thru. I guess birds have a grapevine too. 8)
Beautiful Bethie! I have no Cardinals this year for some reason. But I don't spoil the birds like you and Eileen...they only get bird seed! I have lots of Blue Jays and what I think are Chickadees.
What a beautiful shot. Both the photograph and the subject. I am blown away. Here, one acre allows two cardinal pairs enough space to live. And we have our two pairs. I love them, but they so tussle a bit and chide each other when jostling for the best shot at the sunflower seeds.
Absolutely Fantastic.I do love that picture.I have a few cardinals but no trees around my house so I see them mostly whenI have those giant sunflowers.
Wow wow and wow again. At first, I wasn't sure what I was looking at! I thought you had created something brilliant red to decorate the trees. How lovely to have birdies that colour.
One more thing. What a great holiday card to send out. Save it until the end of the year and have it made into cards.
Thanks Bethie. I love seeing the birds that visit other peoples gardens. Please take more piccies for us of your other little feathered visitors. :-D
My first thought was the same as Jan's "Wow, what a fantastic (Christmas) card!" As little as I like snow, I have to admit, cardinals look even more beautiful in a snowy scene. It's an outstanding photo, Bethie, I love cardinals, and happy to say, we have lots of them here. :-D
