Sunday, January 03, 2010

Cardinals

In England it's the robin; in Russia, the bullfinch. Here it's the cardinal.

Even clad in wintry gray, he does indeed "fire up the landscape / as nothing else can do...
Cardinal

From Mary Oliver's "Red Bird":

I am glad

that red bird comes all winter,
firing up the landscape
as nothing else can do.


Cardinal

Cardinal

Cardinal

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2 Comments:

At 7:23 PM, January 03, 2010 Anonymous Anonymous had this to say...

Very nice! I keep trying to get pictures of the cardinals in my area, but the little rats fly off the first moment that I think of getting the camera...

 
At 10:56 AM, January 05, 2010 Blogger The Ridger, FCD had this to say...

I confess: these were shot through windows. If I go outside, it's much harder to get a good picture, though I did get a nice one of a pair in a bare bush. What I canNOT do is get a decent chickadee!

 

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