Lunar Bovine - Jason Cobill's Weblog » Cardinal http://lunarbovine.com/blog Because sometimes I do things that are interesting. Wed, 16 May 2012 20:01:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Cardinals and Parrots http://lunarbovine.com/blog/2009/05/cardinals-and-parrots/ http://lunarbovine.com/blog/2009/05/cardinals-and-parrots/#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 16:18:54 +0000 jcobill http://lunarbovine.com/blog/?p=332 Out by the river last night Natasha saw a bird with a red spot on it’s wing and asked me what it was. Being an expert ornithologist, I had no idea, so I stalled and told her it was a Cardinal. Except it was clearly not a Cardinal, it was a Red-Winged Blackbird. So she punched me.

Then, no more than 50 feet around the bend, up in a tree was an actual Cardinal. Not very difficult to spot, since it’s redder than a fire truck. I told her it was a Parrot.

Of course I wasn’t carrying my camera, so you get this artistic re-interpretation of the event.

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(Edit: Kudos to Terri, a legitimate expert ornithologist club member, for pointing out my naming error – it was in fact not a red-breasted blackbird, and I knew that, but surfing through the bird directories on Wikipedia had me bird-brained.)

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