As a birder and a photographer, you dream about taking pictures of colorful semi-rare birds. No, I am not doing a series about the animals memorialized by Arizona sport's teams. It just happens that I found some fantastic picture opportunities and diamondbacks and cardinals were just sitting around waiting for their pictures to be taken. This bird has the unoriginal scientific name of Cardinalis cardinalis. Once we were driving on a back road along the Ohio river and spotted a cardinal. We stopped our car, which had Utah license plates at the time, and sat there watching the bird fly around. Soon one of the locals stopped his truck to ask us if we were lost. We said no, not at all, we were watching the cardinal. Since cardinals are a little more common in Kentucky than in Arizona, the pickup truck man drove away slowly shaking his head.
They are so beautiful - my grandmother absolutely *loved* cardinals and collected items with cardinals on them. I have some of her things - and I love the blue jays as well, bullies though they are :)
ReplyDeleteWe have many cardinals here but it is still exciting to see them. I guess it helps to be a brightly colored bird to get a little attention. :)
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