The brownish colored ones are females. The males are the brilliant red color. As for size, they are typically smaler than American Robins but larger than your basic house sparrow.
-- Christian ------------------------------------- http://404notfound.blogspot.com http://birdofthemoment.blogspot.com On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 09:13:11AM -0500, Steven Desjardins wrote: > Wow, a bird with a down jacket. Now that is a shot. ;-) I've seen > quite a few mostly brown cardinals around lately. Does nayone know if > it's a different breed or just a variation? > > > On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > Christine Aguila wrote: > > > >> it's not up to Christian-birder standards, but it was fun to try for this > >> really fat Cardinal. Very deep crop on the 1st of the two shots. > >> > >> http://www.caguila.com/caguila/cardinal/ > >> > >> Cheers, Christine > >> > >> > >> > > Nice shot, actually... but he would want you to know that he isn't really > > fat... he is just fluffed up for warmth - just like when we put on down > > jackets :-) > > > > ann > > > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
