Bird Watching the Northern Cardinals

Written by Carole

Not a day goes by that I am not trying to capture a picture of a bird with my camera. I enjoy watching birds, feeding the birds, taking pictures of birds; you name it I just love bird watching!

Lately some of my frequent visitors have been Northern Cardinals and they are a pleasure to watch. The male Cardinal with his bright plumage is a beauty to behold. Daily these birds visit my feeder and frequently there is a fight to see who gets to eat. The plumage coloring is outstanding and watching them feed while they are fluttering their wings is a sight to behold.

The female cardinal is just as pretty. Her coloring is muted but no less a beauty to behold.

The food I use to attract these wild birds is black oil sunflower seeds. In the winter I prepare a suet made from chunky peanut butter that they also enjoy. They will eat a variety of offerings including:

Corn
Bread products
Suet
Safflower seed
Fruit
White millet

You can’t go wrong when attracting this breed to your backyard. Have your binoculars and camera ready!

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7 comments on “Bird Watching the Northern Cardinals”

Farm Chick Paula on May 13, 2009 at 10:28 am said:

I love the cardinals, too! I love how they flick their tail around while they make their little cheeping sounds.

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sandy on May 18, 2009 at 2:30 pm said:

These are such good photos!!

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sandy on October 30, 2009 at 12:21 pm said:

I so wish we had cardinals around here, these are gorgeous photos.
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Binoculars on March 18, 2010 at 7:13 pm said:

Those pictures are fantastic!!! What did you use to take them with? You should submit them to places like shutterstock or iphotos and get paid when people download them – I’m sure there would be lots of downloads!!!

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Anita on July 10, 2010 at 1:10 pm said:

I just saw a youngish female cardinal with a black (or greyish) beat – is that an anomaly or is that a sign of youth? I’ve never seen a female with anything but a lipstick red beak.

thanks!

GORGEOUS photos btw. Thanks for posting them!

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Anita on July 10, 2010 at 1:11 pm said:

sorry – that was meant to read ‘beak’, not ‘beat’

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Daniel on October 17, 2012 at 7:17 pm said:

I just saw a yellow cardinal with a green beak in atchison Ks. Is that odd or not but it was the most prity bird I have seen what up sets me is people don’t slow for birds in the road they speed up to kill them please reply if you want to comment on these thing here and God bless

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