A cardinal enjoying the morning in my backyard pine tree. Unfortunately, I was taking the pictures through plexiglass and a screen, so the images are a little off.
Isn’t he beautiful? I wish the image below wasn’t so distorted from the screen.
You can actually see the screen in the image below. Sigh, to be so close, yet so separated.
It’s probably a good thing the screen was there. Cardinals are our state bird so I’m a bit more in tune to what they’re thinking than residents of the Cardinals-are-not-our-state-bird states … in that bottom photo he’s got a “What-choo lookin’ at?” look in his eyes.
Without the screen he might have swooped in and taken your camera.
The cardinal is the state bird of Illinois too. Rather unoriginal that it’s the state bird of seven states. I think it’s cool that in the last picture he’s looking right at me, but I agree with you that he looks like he wants to feed me a piece of his beak! (so to speak)