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Check out this one-eyed cardinal that’s been visiting my dad’s bird feeder.
Cool picture but aren’t cardinals supposed to be red?
Male cardinals are red. Lady cardinals are more brown-reddish. :)
I think the nature cam also takes saturated photos, making it appear brighter and more yellow than it really is.
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.
Yeah that black cap is interesting. Not sure what’s going on with that.
It’s a shadow. You can see it on the beak a little bit. It’s more noticeable due to the extremely saturated colors.
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.
Any chance you can share these pics with a local wildlife center? This bird has a lot going on, we’re all curious haha
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.
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
I thought they were supposed to be in a church.
Juveniles and adult females are brownish. Adult males are bright red.
That’s an interesting black cap! I wonder of cardinals are susceptible to that house finch blindness pathogen?
Yikes! I had no idea that that was a thing.
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