Photograph of a Cardinal

When we lived in central North Carolina, there were always Cardinals around our back yard, particularly in the winter time. We had a deck in back which could be accessed through a sliding glass door.  There was a branch that just off the deck and up a little from the railing. 

I knew I could attract the cardinals with some wild bird seed.  I also knew that being very skittish, the cardinals would perch and look around before they landed to take some of the seed.  So, I put out the seed and watched.  I saw where they usually landed on the branch just off the deck.


I set my camera on a tripod and stuck the lens between the blinds on the now open sliding glass door and focused on the branch were I had noticed they most often landed.  Then I put out the seed and waited.

This weeks picture is the result of that effort.