Marso 2, 2019

In the view from my window right now: How many cardinals?

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Did you find them all? Don't miss the females!

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mccullough ayon kay ...

I see three.

Rusty ayon kay ...

Without blowing up the picture I see 4.

I'm Full of Soup ayon kay ...

4 maybe 5? Cant see between their legs so not sure of gender.

Stephen Taylor ayon kay ...

Four females (bright red plumage) and two males (dull brown plumage).

David Begley ayon kay ...

The Bluejays are in Milwaukee this weekend to play the Warriors. Screw cardinals.

chuck ayon kay ...

Seven, maybe eight.

rhhardin ayon kay ...

The grey ones just identify as female.

It's not testosterone season or the males would all be fighting.

gspencer ayon kay ...

I'm with chuck.

rhhardin ayon kay ...

If you want to look very hard, take the photo address through the number only and add /sizes/o

https://www.flickr.com/photos/althouse/40292839263/sizes/o

Char Char Binks, Esq. ayon kay ...

6

wendybar ayon kay ...

roadgeek said...
Four females (bright red plumage) and two males (dull brown plumage).
3/2/19, 9:54 AM

Opposite genders actually. The bright red are the males...the dull brown are the females. Male birds are usually the most colorful so they can attract the females.

gilbar ayon kay ...

females can't be ordained; how could they be Cardinals is they can't even be Priests?
females don't play in the major leagues, even for crappy St Louis teams!

Jaq ayon kay ...

Bonus points for the junco.

Fernandinande ayon kay ...

The Cardinal: Most Fuckable State Bird

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent ayon kay ...

I see six but I’m using my phone. Nevertheless, a shrub full of cardinals is pretty cool.

Leland ayon kay ...

4 Meades, 2 Anns

Ice Nine ayon kay ...

The females are much more clever about camouflage.

The males, not so much - but they do know how to get them some poontang.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

6

bagoh20 ayon kay ...

Get the shotgun. They're all wearing MAGA hats.

Rosalyn C. ayon kay ...

6 cardinals, 1 other.

Trumpit ayon kay ...

I see ZERO cardinals. I got it right after careful analysis of the laws to protect cardinals from hunters. There aren't any such laws. Just give rotten redneck New York hunters, Don Jr., and Eric Trump a chance to kill every last one of them with their slingshots. Maybe, Colonel Beernie Sanders will make Vermont jerk "chicken." Folks, this IS a culture war inflamed by the erection of Schlump, a one-term president. Stop hunters and trappers in their murderous tracks.

Larry Davis ayon kay ...

Seven zoomed in on my 4k monitor.

Paul ayon kay ...

Impossible. Al Gore says it is a sauna now outside. Who are you going to believe, St. Gore or you lying eyes!!.

Otto ayon kay ...

Didn't see any , no even stan musial. There weren't any female cardinals. Feminist's hallucinations.

rcocean ayon kay ...

Four males at least two females. Hard to see the females since they are so drab and boring.

rcocean ayon kay ...

Of course, the females are drab and boring because they are so much smarter.

Fubar.N.Wass ayon kay ...

How many choir and altar boys?

mockturtle ayon kay ...

I counted six. Three of each.

Big Mike ayon kay ...

Thanks to rhhardin I count four males, two females, and a possible third female in the crotch of a tree in the lower right corner -- but it could be a clump of reddish-brown leaves because it's a bit further back. There's a grey bird with black wings above the left-most cardinal, but I can't quite figure out what it is. It's nothing that comes around my feeders here in Virginia.

mockturtle ayon kay ...

Oops, yes, there are four males. Three females. The fourth female is probably around somewhere but is the shy, retiring type.

bagoh20 ayon kay ...

The patriarchy of Madison.

Tank ayon kay ...

I see eight, but one might be a fence.

rehajm ayon kay ...

I see one flickr.

Jaq ayon kay ...

4 male cardinals, two females.

Junco near the bottom on the right

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Dark-eyed_Junco/id

There's a grey bird with black wings above the left-most cardinal,

Possibly another junco, conceivably a cedar waxwing.

Big Mike ayon kay ...

@Aunty, too big for a junco. I love our juncos. When I come out on the deck to refill the bird feeders all the birds scatter, but the brave little juncos are always the first to return.

jaydub ayon kay ...

Four males, two females plus two interlopers of another species.

Yancey Ward ayon kay ...

I see 6 that are definitely cardinals and there is 1 additional bird in the upper left corner that might be a female cardinal, but looks almost bluish to my eyes.

Yancey Ward ayon kay ...

Also, Waldo is in the lower right corner.

Yancey Ward ayon kay ...

There might be 1 more bird right at the very top edge of the photo near the left corner, but it appears to be facing away, so I can't tell if it is just a dead leaf or not.

Yancey Ward ayon kay ...

And definitely a 9th bird about 20% up from the bottom and from the right edge- also kind of bluish to my eye.

rehajm ayon kay ...

Two females. One gray bird- a cold titmouse? Four males. Possibly one male lower center that’s good at hiding. There’s a couple splotches of crimson between the green...

Sebastian ayon kay ...

"Don't miss the females!"

God forbid.

alanc709 ayon kay ...

Trumpit, of course, has to flaunt his inanity, even in a thread about birds in a bush. Go figure. You need to see someone about that obsession of yours.

tcrosse ayon kay ...

I drink to Cardinal Puff for the sixth time.

traditionalguy ayon kay ...
Naalis ng may-ari ang komentong ito.
traditionalguy ayon kay ...

The beautiful cocky Redbirds are the males. The cream-brown streaked one are the camouflaged females. God designed the guardian males to take a hunter’s fire away from the mother birds.
And then God moves onto designing the Peacocks, and he let his artistry go wild.

Daniel Jackson ayon kay ...

Six: four males and two females.

Fernandinande ayon kay ...

Don't miss the females!

...said the sign on the Orchids of Asia massage parlor.

Guildofcannonballs ayon kay ...

The thing you people don't realize is Carol Mosely Braun solved all of your problems, by working so, so hard.

Like Barbara Mikulski is the one to tell you why she needs control over every aspect of every aspect of your life, because of her fitness to do so via democracy.

Don't hate haters. You ain't Barbara Mikulski, deal.

Trumpit ayon kay ...

"God designed the guardian males to take a hunter’s fire away from the mother birds."

Are you joking? Read a book about evolution. The difference in appearance of the male and female birds is due to sexual selection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection

Jaq ayon kay ...

The difference in appearance of the male and female birds is due to sexual selection.

If sexual selection leads to a marked change in a species, it’s likely because the trait selected for produces a benefit for the species, such as attracting the attention of maybe a sharp shinned hawk away from the female bearing the brightly colored bird’s young. Not always true, of course, so maybe we have to ask God or Trumpit for the answer in this case.

Guildofcannonballs ayon kay ...

We all got our things, Hardin heard "great minds think alike" and forever lost his shit.

Happens.

Guildofcannonballs ayon kay ...

Great minds think Like I do. Aand nobody thinks like me.

Guildofcannonballs ayon kay ...

Watching TRump 2019 CPAC decimates that nightmare.

Inga...Allie Oop ayon kay ...

Possibly 7 and a blue jay upper left?

Yancey Ward ayon kay ...

There’s a couple splotches of crimson between the green...

Definitely possible. I missed that- it is probably a male hidden better since I don't see such crimson splotches anywhere but the birds.

Guildofcannonballs ayon kay ...

aND THE SHADOW NEVER KNOWS

WHISPERED DREAMS SO FAR UNSHOWN

VELVET SHALLOW DREAMLY EYES

FRESH UPON GREEN EVER NEW SCENES.

I agree it's disgusting, I agree you made me write it.

Kevin ayon kay ...

Don't miss the females!

Mr. John C Cardinal and wife.

Guildofcannonballs ayon kay ...

I've decided to unrenounce.

THank ui Althouose.

Guildofcannonballs ayon kay ...

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Peachy ayon kay ...

A surreal sight.

rcocean ayon kay ...

Do hawks see color? Many animals are color blind.

Mazo Jeff ayon kay ...

Gorgeous Detail! What's the camera?

Guildofcannonballs ayon kay ...

Barbara Mikulski

Let's vote more of her and then declaim ignorance when all the deaths pile up.

We are smart. You betcha.

Rex ayon kay ...

Four males, two females, one Dark-eyed Junco, one ... American Robin? facing away from us at the upper left?

JCann ayon kay ...

I was of three minds, like a tree in which there were three blackbirds.

Paco Wové ayon kay ...

Birds have pretty good color vision. Birds of prey have pretty excellent vision all around.

Rockport Conservative ayon kay ...

Lucky you. I'm still missing the cardinals. Hurricane Harvey took them away from my backyard. Some here in town have some, but they have not returned to my trees, or feeders. Oh, we see one, once in a while. There used to be a pair that nested in the bay tree and we enjoyed seeing the fledglings trying their wings. But not since Harvey.

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