Do we have any Birders on the Forum?

[Lummy]

I take interest in the birds I observe but I don't go looking for them, so I wouldn't consider myself a "birder". The most difficult birds to identify by type are hawks, IMHO.

[donttread]

So yesterday my wife got a picture of a bird similar to the one I saw but not the same. We identified it as large female northern Cardinal. She is quite long. I'm now thinking the bird i saw was the male and for some reason he just wasn't as brilliant red as they usually are. It could have been my old eyes, but I doubt it as I had been within a few feet of a Cardinal while on vacation a couple of months ago. She was in the exact same tree as the bird i saw so maybe we'll get lucky and they will nest on our property.
My wife also said the bird tried to come in, the tree isn't far from our porch window so she did not hit the glass with any speed or get hurt. My wife was wearing red at the time. Is it possible she thought it was her hubby and she wanted to fly to him to give him a list of chores?

[countryboy]

OK. But that head?

Hey donttread, got a pic of our favorite bird, in flight, on a trail cam the other day. Don't worry, you can't see his head, lol.
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[Just AnotherPerson]

Hey donttread, got a pic of our favorite bird, in flight, on a trail cam the other day. Don't worry, you can't see his head, lol.
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Beautiful picture.

[donttread]

Hey donttread, got a pic of our favorite bird, in flight, on a trail cam the other day. Don't worry, you can't see his head, lol.
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LOL. Thanks for sparing me that.

[Captain Obvious]

Always been kind of a bird buff. We have several feeders around the yard and a hummingbird feeder, we get lots of those.

Always have a local species book handy to identify the weird looking ones.