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Got Cardinal ? (1 Viewer)
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Vectis Birder
Itchy feet
I visited the USA for the first (and hopefully not last) time last year. A male cardinal I saw was my favourite bird of the trip.
Baron Birder
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Vectis Birder said:
Stayed with my brothers family in Florida. My favorite the Roseate spoonbill followd by the red shouldered hawk - I did love the cardinal as wel as my favorite colour is red
keith richter
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Cool! I get 2-4 in my yard. 
Crowded Feeder
The cardinals are common to us here in Mississippi. The varience in the females is interesting to me, but the male is so striking he can't be ignored.
My feeder is crowded with cardinals, goldfinches, several different sparrows, plus a mockingbird or two, bluejays, redbellied woodpeckers, and wrens. I have even seen a robin, a wood thrush, and a towhees on the feeder! First time I have seen a robin there.
The robins have been here for 3 weeks. So many of them that they are a nuisance right now. I caught them eating the berries off of a nandina bush.
The cardinals are common to us here in Mississippi. The varience in the females is interesting to me, but the male is so striking he can't be ignored.
My feeder is crowded with cardinals, goldfinches, several different sparrows, plus a mockingbird or two, bluejays, redbellied woodpeckers, and wrens. I have even seen a robin, a wood thrush, and a towhees on the feeder! First time I have seen a robin there.
The robins have been here for 3 weeks. So many of them that they are a nuisance right now. I caught them eating the berries off of a nandina bush.
I've noticed alot of cardinals in my backyard too this winter. Don't know if it's because I chopped up some dried cranberries to mix with the seed or not. Last week when it was so cold and no snow on the ground I saw about 30 robins sitting on my neighbors frozen pool cover. Poor guys were so cold they looked like red breasted soft balls! I took some hot water out to the birdbath, broke the ice and filled it. It looked like a roman bath house! And yes I admit, for a minute I wondered if I would awake the next morning to find frozen birds all over the yard.... come to think of it I haven't seen that many since and we do have snow on the ground now. Uh Oh
LindaW said:
The robins arrived here in central Mississippi about 2-3 weeks ago. A flock of a hundred or more birds roosted in my holly hedge and in the tall loblolly pines for several days before most moved on. I don't think I have ever seen a robin on the feeder before this week and I didn't actually seen it feeding, just perched there. The feeder is very crowded right now. I feed a commercial mix that I blend with extra sunflower seeds. I also hang suet on the old fashioned hand made hopper type feeder. I put a flower clay pot in the window box and sit a matching saucer sitting on top of it and fill it with seeds. The cardinal and wrens will come to it.
