Natural Selections

It is my experience that most creates are all about food. When our 14 year old son gets up in the morning the first question he asks is, “what’s for dinner?” The same is true for most species on this planet (and elsewhere as well). When we had a bird feeder on our back porch we had a constant flow of birds (and squirrels). Many of them were quite bold and would munch away even if they were aware of our presence, but not the cardinal. At the first sign of human presence they made for the distant trees. So it was with great difficulty that I captured this female cardinal one rainy day. While quite muted compared with the bright red male cardinal the female plumage is every bit as beautiful.
Apex, NC. Dec 2006.