These are three birds I have never seen before. The top two were exotic birds which were flying around in the Butterfly House in Chicago. Not sure what they are.
The bottom bird id of course a Cardinal. It was very funny as we spotted this bird as we came out of Junko's house @junko. Oh yes that's a cardinal and us UK photographers went running over to see if we could catch our first shot of the beautiful red bird. Of course we all had the wrong lenses on!! Our US hosts all looked at each other in amazement as they didn't realise this was our first sighting of this gorgeous bird. None of the shots are as sharp as I would like but I had to record my first sighting especially the cardinal!!
Best on black
Many thanks for your lovely comments on my group shots - very much appreciated!!
I love this and how you have our lowly cardinal in amongst some exotic ones. It's exciting to this this is a bird worth capturing -- inspiring me to try some this summer.
