• @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
    3•9 months ago

    Yeah I think the colors were throwing me off. It looks almost green-yellow in this picture.

    Although I don’t see a black cap like this on any cardinals male or female. But I can’t think of what else it would be.

    • CrimeDadOPAEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      Yeah that black cap is interesting. Not sure what’s going on with that.

      • @PorkTaco@sh.itjust.works
        2•9 months ago

        It’s a shadow. You can see it on the beak a little bit. It’s more noticeable due to the extremely saturated colors.

        • CrimeDadOPAEnglish
          1•9 months ago

          Someone else remarked about the color saturation. I did a little bit of adjusting in Google Photos, including moving the HDR slider to 50%. Is that a bad thing? I like how it helps bring out the details.

      • rhythmisaprancer
        1•9 months ago

        Any chance you can share these pics with a local wildlife center? This bird has a lot going on, we’re all curious haha

        • CrimeDadOPAEnglish
          3•9 months ago

          Yeah, maybe. As for the cap, she visited again when the sun was at a different angle and her cap feathers aren’t black. They’re reddish brown. Between the lighting and the grime from her wound it just looked black.

          • rhythmisaprancer
            2•9 months ago

            Ya, the images showing her eye definitely don’t show the cap being as prominent. But that eye, specialists might be curious. I am most certainly not a specialist 🙂 essentially, it was folks like you that caught on to that with finches in thr first place! I’ll stop bugging you about it haha