What a flamboyant bird! The male “woodie” comes with over 6 different colours – red, metallic purplish-green, white stripes, patches of yellow, dark red, black and blue. The hen is less conspicuous. She has some beautiful brown and white flecked feathers with blue under her wings and a distinctive teardrop-shaped white eye patch and a whitish [...]
Tout le monde connaît monsieur le cardinal! He’s a perfect combination of familiarity, conspicuousness and style. He’s bright red overall, has a black mask and throat with a red crest and a large, thick red bill.
There’s a bit of blur in the left foreground from branches but I don’t think it takes away too much. Close though
I took this photo in early morning light. The settings are 1/640 at f2.8 at 200mm and I turned the ISO up to 200 so I didn’t have to use the flash.
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