• @OnceADream
    15•11 months ago

    Male cardinals are red. Lady cardinals are more brown-reddish. :)

    • @MooseLad
      2•11 months ago

      I think the nature cam also takes saturated photos, making it appear brighter and more yellow than it really is.

      • @[email protected]
        3•11 months ago

        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.

        • CrimeDadOPEnglish
          2•11 months ago

          Yeah that black cap is interesting. Not sure what’s going on with that.

          • @[email protected]
            2•11 months ago

            It’s a shadow. You can see it on the beak a little bit. It’s more noticeable due to the extremely saturated colors.

            • CrimeDadOPEnglish
              1•11 months ago

              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.

          • rhythmisaprancer
            1•11 months ago

            Any chance you can share these pics with a local wildlife center? This bird has a lot going on, we’re all curious haha

            • CrimeDadOPEnglish
              3•11 months ago

              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.

              • rhythmisaprancer
                2•11 months ago

                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