Missing the Cardinals
Craig’s Birds has some pretty cool photos. I’m not a birder, though I have an ornithologist friend (Hi Susan, I owe you an email) who taught me the value of pishing in the woods. If you click on that link, by the way, be prepared to blink a few times in the presence of the face of, presumably, Ryan Zimmerling.
Other than that, this was just a small post to note that I missed not seeing cardinals this winter. They’re the state bird in Ohio so they’re everywhere (because they’re the state bird? or did the cardinals come first? who really knows).
Utah’s state bird is the seagull. I definitely see them all over the place. But we had seagulls in Ohio (at least near Lake Erie). Why can’t there be flashy fluffs of red flying around my backyard here? Boo. At least there are robins in the area.
On a very I’m-a-boring-grownup-now note, the daffodils started to bloom in our front yard yesterday. It was pretty cool to see a hint of yellow when I left for work and a lot more yellow when I came home.
