We see a lot of these guys in the summer not so much in the winter. Do you know what it is?
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Cardinal?
If does resemble a female Cardinal, but the fact that they are there in the hot summers and not the cooler winters makes me wonder. Most of our Cardinals stay here year round. The females (again around here) don't have what appears to be a darker line in the chest area. Then too the tail looks long for a Cardinal.
Jerry
See Jim, I am really not a birder.
Not a cardinal, but a relative.
Your trying though Jerry :wink:
Grosbeak!
desert cardinal!
I am going "out on a limb" and saying Pyrrhuloxia.
Jerry
Yes Sir, pyrrhuloxia it is.
Or...desert cardinal!
You are correct nastygunz, I just never heard it called that. I asked my wife if she ever heard it called a desert cardinal, her reply: "of course, what else would you call it, nobody can say Pyrrhuloxia."
"out on a limb", he says. :doh2: :alscalls:
haha i was thinking the same thing as your Missus,Mr. John.