Another Bird

[JohnP]

We see a lot of these guys in the summer not so much in the winter.  Do you know what it is?

[nastygunz]

Cardinal?

[Hawks Feather]

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.

[JohnP]

Not a cardinal, but a relative.

[FinsnFur]

Your trying though Jerry

[nastygunz]

Grosbeak!

[nastygunz]

desert cardinal!

[Hawks Feather]

I am going "out on a limb" and saying Pyrrhuloxia.

Jerry

[JohnP]

Yes Sir, pyrrhuloxia it is. 

[nastygunz]

Or...desert cardinal!

[JohnP]

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."

[FinsnFur]

"out on a limb", he says.

[nastygunz]

haha i was thinking the same thing as your Missus,Mr. John.