BIRD WEEKLY – PHOTO CHALLENGE – BIRDS WITH RED FEATHERS
Red birds? Not entirely red, right? Let me see what I can do.
House Finch and Goldfinch
Two Red House Finches
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Lady Cardinal
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
The most scarlet bird – our Cardinal in the snow
Red Finches
Red House Finches in motion
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Categories: birds, Cardinal, Gallery, House Finch, Photography, Wildlife, Woodpeckers
Super gallery of red feathered birds! I wanted to post a Downy but all my recent photos were females. No red there! Absolutely amazing shot getting the house finches fighting at the feeder. And you managed a photobomb by a goldfinch. LOL! Very nice! 🙂
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I have no control over what the birds do in the pictures. My goal is to be in focus and hope they don’t just decide to leave. I was in the kitchen with Garry and there was a red-bellied woodpecker, a blue jay AND a cardinal on the feeders. I skulked into the dining room, picked up my camera, turned it on. They all flew away AS I turned it on. I can’t help but think this is personal.
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I understand completely! I hope that each shot I aim at works in my favor too. It’s just awesome when I get home and look at them and something is super good. Most of the time, they are okay. I love the photobomb of the goldfinch. It’s like it did it on purpose. LOL! 🙂
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The goldfinches are not afraid of me. Neither are the house finch. The cardinals aren’t afraid, but they don’t like my camera (too big? too beepy?) or it’s personal and they don’t like ME.\\
Since I started shooting birds, I have NO control over how good the picture comes out, so it’s always a happy surprise when something comes out wonderful. I was looking at the “best” pictures from National Geographics and ALL of those “best” shots were happy accidents. They just found a good place to be and shot the hell out of it. And got some really GREAT pictures.
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Just like Bob Ross always said…”there are no mistakes…only happy accidents”. 🙂
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You last photo really caught my eye today 😀 Brilliant.
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Thanks, Cee. That is the ONLY photo I’ve had printed and framed in the past few years. My walls are so full that if something goes up, something else comes down.
I have a great online printing company. They are reasonably priced, fast, accurate. I’ve never gotten a bad or inaccurate print from them. They deliver very fast too. They don’t crop unless instructed by you. They print on paper, canvas (canvas prints look like paintings), aluminum and I think wood — and various other things in case you want cups or t-shirts (there are better places for fabric and other doodads). I’ve been using them for at least the past ten years and they keep getting better without becoming beyond my means.
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Love red birds! We have cardinals in our year all year long, and they bring so much joy, especially when the world is white here and they get to be real show-offs!
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Thank you! We have Cardinals year-round too. They are territorial, so you can see any number of lady Cardinals, but will only see one (dominant) male.
I have seen two of the red boys go to war in the air. It’s like watching a war movie but those red birds can REALLY fly.
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A bird fight in the air! My! They really are territorial. We had a funny little book with bird calls in it, and my grandson kept playing the male cardinal call, and the daddy of the yard went absolutely crazy. I had to bring the book inside…
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I was waiting with my granddaughter for her morning bus. I heard one male call then I heard another. I looked at Kaity and said: “Watch! They are going to fight!” And they did.
Wheeling and attacking. Every now and again, a red Cardinal (the standard issue version) drops by for a snack, but leaves pretty fast. It’s not mating season so it isn’t necessarily wartime. But it was deep in January when I saw that fight, so one must have been trying to take over the other’s (or a piece of) his territory. Now, with the feeders, I think they have a mini-truce.
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What a memory, and lesson on male territory! So funny that a snack will allow a truce!
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I suspect it’s like the watering holes in Africa where every animal can drink and no animal attacks another. They seem to know when they have to tolerate each other. It’s a survival mechanism.
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Perfect analogy!
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