Treat Your Sweetie

[yourlibrarian]

What's particularly cute about the cardinal couple is that they feed one another seeds from time to time. We sort of caught that here.

They also seem to have a chaperone...

Below the cut a few other birds spotted.

Comments

[shirebound]

Lovely, as always. Your sightings are wonderful.

[turlough]

I didn't know there were birds who did that. Fascinating! (Their chaperon looks really disapproving though :-)

[cmcmck]

Your goldfinch is so unlike our own native one.

[yourlibrarian]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it 🙂

[yourlibrarian]

Haha, it amused me seeing that sparrow behind them. I imagine they were blocking the food plate.

I've seen the purple finches do it with one another too, though never the sparrows or mourning doves.

[yourlibrarian]

It's a shy one. We rarely spot one and have fewer than a dozen photos over the years.

[kaishin108]

That is sweet that they feed each other. :)

[adafrog]

Neat. :)

[egret]

I'm so glad you explained because at first I thought it was a strange-looking cardinal with extra legs!

[vriddy]

Wow! I feel like I'm discovering new bird species, very cute :)

[sparowe]

I didn't know that about cardinals, how delightful! <3

[yourlibrarian]

It's cute to see, alright.

[yourlibrarian]

Yeah, we've seen it happen but it's fairly quick so we were glad we caught it at all.

[yourlibrarian]

Haha!

[yourlibrarian]

It's definitely been one for us over the years 🙂

[yourlibrarian]

We used to see cardinals far more often when we lived in Florida but never spotted it either. Having the bird plate helps!

[morrow]

Such pretty birds!

[yourlibrarian]

They make for nice viewing, alright 🙂