I just took several pictures of a male Cardinal eating snow with his beak covered, very cute. He did this several times and would then scrape it clean and start all over again.
Sent from my iPhone On Feb 8, 2014, at 1:52 PM, "Meena Madhav Haribal" <m...@cornell.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > I just watched cardinals eating snow. First, I saw a male cardinal on the > snow, I thought he looked very cute so I was praising his beauty. Then I > thought may be snow is too deep for him get up. Just then he started eating > snow. When he face was up, his beak was covered with snow. So I ran down to > my car to get the video camera out. By the time I came up and set up my > camera, he had his last bite (?) of snow and flew up to a branch still his > beak covered with snow. As I was watching him, I saw another bird down > slightly hidden in the branches. It turned out to be his partner who was also > eating snow. She too was satiated after a few minutes and joined the male. > Then they both flew away together. > It was a very cute behavior to watch and birds looked adorable! > > Cheers > Meena > Meena Haribal > Ithaca NY 14850 > 42.429007,-76.47111 > http://haribal.org/ > http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ > > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
