Are You a Cardinal?

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You bet your sweet ass I am.

Yeah, there are about six people on the Interweb who will get that joke…

This little guy lives in our back yard somewhere. He’s damnably elusive, though, and never stays in one clearly visible place long enough for me to find the camera and get a picture. He was sitting out on one of the pine trees today, chirping away loudly, though, and I managed to get a few decent shots, despite not having the right sort of camera for this kind of thing.

This is probably the best for showing the red color (he was almost directly overhead the whole time, making it difficult to find an angle where he didn’t look black. The pointy shape comes out nicely in this one:

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Here ends this week’s edition of “Wildlife Photography for Idiots.”