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The male cardinals are the second meanest of my regular visitors (after the blue jays). There are two or three who frequent the feeder, but only one gets to feed at any given time. The meanest one around gets dibs. They chow down on sunflower seeds and peanuts and unlike many other birds, they will hull and eat the seeds while they sit on the ledge (the other birds usually get their food "to go"). The cardinals always chirp nicely to announce their presence. The males are bright red and the females are gray with orange highlights. The females are much more shy and therefore harder to photograph. The juvenile cardinals are spotty brown and orange, but are distinguishable from adults by the color of their beaks, which start out black and gradually move to tan and then bright orange.
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