female northern cardinal
grrlscientist | October 19, 2007tags: northern cardinal, birds, Image of the Day
Female Northern Cardinal, Cardinalis cardinalis, feeds her chick in Central Park.
Image: Bob Levy, author of Club George. [Wallpaper size]
I came upon Mama Castle foraging with her youngest fledgling in Central Park's Shakespeare Garden. Mama Castle and I are well acquainted so it was not at all unusual for her to rush toward me when I whistled. She stopped on the top of a rock waiting for the peanut she expected me to provide. When she received it she took it to her previous perch and called out. Her fledgling rushed to her side. Then Mama…