Or at least it feeds at our blue feeder that hangs off the back porch.
I kid you not, it is bald. It has zero feathers atop its fairly ugly head which is graced with the presence of black skin.
We saw one of these at the Schielke's on the Fourth of July...although theirs was a little mangier looking, so I'm gonna go ahead and hypothesize that there is a virus going around the cardinal population.
And by virus I mean terminal illness. If one loses the feathers atop its head, I'm gonna go ahead and assume the end is near. They can SEE the light at the end of the tunnel and are heading towards it.
Hope they led a grand life in bird world.
Hats off to you, Cardinals of the Eberwhite Woods and surrounding Ann Arbor area...err feathers off to you...
I'm pretty sure it's the same creepy cardinal, Andrea. As Brian (my Brian) would say, "don't judge." I think his comment was hilarious since it was about our feathered friends...not a person :)
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Your camping trip reminds me of when we had a similar experience up in Muskegon when you were very little (major deluge). I wonder if Alison remembers. The two fams were camping together when your mom and I found her in a floating tent...literally. She was pretty terrified by it, I must say. So many memories...
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Hahahaha I remember that! Brian and I were forced to sleep in the van and we were not happy about it...oh man...I actually enlightened our group of that camping disaster. Could've been worse, that's for sure! :)
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