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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 3363 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention Love Notes on a Backyard Naturalist Lisa Janice Cohen The cardinals will not mate until early spring, but today I tell you about the pair in our yard. The male, the color of a child's valentine against fresh snow, tucks a single black sunflower seed inside an orange beak. He swoops between the base of the feeder and the hedge that hides his shy wife to gift her with one morsel at a time. When the babies hatch, he will feed them also. February is far too cold for eggs and she will not construct her nest until the sun lingers late in the sky. Like the cardinals, we mate for life. When the boys are asleep, you crush fresh berries on my tongue. |
