The Last of the Winter Seeds
by Janette Boyd
Title
The Last of the Winter Seeds
Artist
Janette Boyd
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
Photo of Male Northern Cardinal and Black-capped Chickadee, trying to get the last of the winter seeds from the bucket on my back deck. Some of the seeds have sprouted and spring is right around the corner, here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The Northern Cardinal is a fairly large, long-tailed songbird with a short, very thick bill and a prominent crest. Cardinals often sit with a hunched-over posture and with the tail pointed straight down.
Both Sexes
Length: 8.3-9.1 in (21-23 cm)
Weight: 1.5-1.7 oz (42-48 g)
Wingspan: 9.8-12.2 in (25-31 cm)
Male cardinals are brilliant red all over, with a reddish bill and black face immediately around the bill. Females are pale brown overall with warm reddish tinges in the wings, tail, and crest. They have the same black face and red-orange bill.
The black-capped chickadee is a small, nonmigratory, North American songbird that lives in deciduous and mixed forests. It is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Poecile atricapillus
Rank: Species
Higher classification: Poecile
Symbol of: Massachusetts, Maine, New Brunswick
Did you know: The males sing the song only in relative isolation from other chickadees (including their mates). wikipedia.org
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March 18th, 2018
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