March 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!

68 comments:

mccullough said...

I see three.

Rusty said...

Without blowing up the picture I see 4.

I'm Full of Soup said...

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

Stephen Taylor said...

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

David Begley said...

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

chuck said...

Seven, maybe eight.

rhhardin said...

The grey ones just identify as female.

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

gspencer said...

I'm with chuck.

rhhardin said...

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. said...

6

wendybar said...

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 said...

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 said...

Bonus points for the junco.

Fernandinande said...

The Cardinal: Most Fuckable State Bird

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

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

Leland said...

4 Meades, 2 Anns

Ice Nine said...

The females are much more clever about camouflage.

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

Anonymous said...

6

bagoh20 said...

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

Rosalyn C. said...

6 cardinals, 1 other.

Trumpit said...

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 said...

Seven zoomed in on my 4k monitor.

Paul said...

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

Otto said...

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

rcocean said...

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

rcocean said...

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

Fubar.N.Wass said...

How many choir and altar boys?

mockturtle said...

I counted six. Three of each.

Big Mike said...

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 said...

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

bagoh20 said...

The patriarchy of Madison.

Tank said...

I see eight, but one might be a fence.

rehajm said...

I see one flickr.

Jaq said...

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 said...

@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 said...

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

Yancey Ward said...

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 said...

Also, Waldo is in the lower right corner.

Yancey Ward said...

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 said...

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

rehajm said...

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 said...

"Don't miss the females!"

God forbid.

alanc709 said...

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 said...

I drink to Cardinal Puff for the sixth time.

traditionalguy said...
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traditionalguy said...

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 said...

Six: four males and two females.

Fernandinande said...

Don't miss the females!

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

Guildofcannonballs said...

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 said...

"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 said...

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 said...

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

Happens.

Guildofcannonballs said...

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

Guildofcannonballs said...

Watching TRump 2019 CPAC decimates that nightmare.

Inga...Allie Oop said...

Possibly 7 and a blue jay upper left?

Yancey Ward said...

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 said...

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 said...

Don't miss the females!

Mr. John C Cardinal and wife.

Guildofcannonballs said...

I've decided to unrenounce.

THank ui Althouose.

Guildofcannonballs said...

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Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

A surreal sight.

rcocean said...

Do hawks see color? Many animals are color blind.

Mazo Jeff said...

Gorgeous Detail! What's the camera?

Guildofcannonballs said...

Barbara Mikulski

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

We are smart. You betcha.

Rex said...

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

JCann said...

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

Paco Wové said...

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

Rockport Conservative said...

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.