Showing posts with label cardinal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cardinal. Show all posts

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Remember our feathered friends

On these cold gray days of winter, remember our feathered friends.  Even though they find berries and bugs to eat, it's nice for them to have an outdoor cafeteria!  


Give them safflower seeds.  The cardinals and songbirds love them.  


Or just a wild birdseed mix will do, and you'll see blue jays, finches, chickadees and titmice (the mourning dove will eat what falls on the ground).  Bring out the suet cakes and make the woodpeckers and nuthatches happy.  


And always remember fresh water in the birdbath.  


Happy Birds,
and you'll enjoy watching them!  

Friday, August 15, 2008

Cardinal

Another bird painting. This painting I just finished last evening. It's acrylic on watercolor paper 4 x 6.



The cardinal is our state bird here in North Carolina.

It is sometimes called the Winter Redbird because it is most noticeable during the winter when it is the only "redbird" present.