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Offline landofoz

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Cardinal Mating Ceremony??
« on: Jul 05, 2010, 08:33:41 PM »
I looked out the window earlier and saw the coolest site ever!  Someone help me!! 

There was a gorgeous male cardinal sitting outside on the concrete out back - right by the house.  There were too other birds there - smaller, more round, and kinda light brown/dirt colored--I think females.  They were both flitting their wings very rapidly, puffing up their chests, and jumping around.  The male had a bit of a hot dog bun in his mouth and fed it to one of the birds.  It was so cool, he actually turned his beak a bit and so did she and he put it right into her mouth.  They did this a couple times.  The other "female" continued to jump around and flap her wings but never touched the bun that he was pulling the pieces off of.  The male hopped onto our picnic table and both females began kinda jumping after him.  Then another bird, that looked just like the male cardinal, except brown on the top feathers and all the under feathers were a dark brick red flew in and everyone else flew off.  I'm thinking maybe a juvenile male??  He kinda looked around like, "where did everyone go??"

So, anyone know what was going on?  Mating ceremony?  training new chicks?  Birds gone wild??

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Re: Cardinal Mating Ceremony??
« Reply #1 on: Jul 05, 2010, 08:35:53 PM »
I found this pic that looks just like the possible male juvenile.

Juvenile
« Last Edit: Jul 06, 2010, 04:25:29 PM by Dianna »

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Re: Cardinal Mating Ceremony??
« Reply #2 on: Jul 05, 2010, 09:53:51 PM »
I bet Wrennie could answer that for you. She'll pop in one day soon, I'm sure... :wink5:
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Re: Cardinal Mating Ceremony??
« Reply #3 on: Jul 05, 2010, 10:32:06 PM »
It really sounded more like chicks to me. I think the duller one was probably a female. My pair I had in my backyard the female was a duller orange-ish color.
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Re: Cardinal Mating Ceremony??
« Reply #4 on: Jul 05, 2010, 10:37:14 PM »
Here is a pic the looks like the new comer aka "juvenile male" that chased everyone off - it's the fellas watching, not the momma on the feeder.

momma and juveniles
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Re: Cardinal Mating Ceremony??
« Reply #5 on: Jul 05, 2010, 10:59:41 PM »
Neither one of those links worked for me...
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Re: Cardinal Mating Ceremony??
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Re: Cardinal Mating Ceremony??
« Reply #7 on: Jul 06, 2010, 12:00:12 AM »
I dunno what it may have been but I am sure it was cool to see.

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Re: Cardinal Mating Ceremony??
« Reply #8 on: Jul 06, 2010, 10:59:11 AM »
I can't get any of the links to work.

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Re: Cardinal Mating Ceremony??
« Reply #9 on: Jul 06, 2010, 04:28:31 PM »
All links should be working now... :BigGrin:
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Re: Cardinal Mating Ceremony??
« Reply #10 on: Jul 06, 2010, 04:38:47 PM »
Only the first one that Sarah labeled 'Juvenile' worked for me yet.
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Re: Cardinal Mating Ceremony??
« Reply #11 on: Jul 06, 2010, 05:16:25 PM »
Only the first one that Sarah labeled 'Juvenile' worked for me yet.

Same for me.

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Re: Cardinal Mating Ceremony??
« Reply #12 on: Jul 06, 2010, 06:00:22 PM »
What about now? :ScratchHead:
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Re: Cardinal Mating Ceremony??
« Reply #14 on: Jul 06, 2010, 09:38:35 PM »
The link worked but that site was so slow that I just closed it.

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Re: Cardinal Mating Ceremony??
« Reply #15 on: Jul 09, 2010, 11:57:26 AM »
Okay, what did I do wrong?  I thought I did what I normally do...

 

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