that crazy cardinal is back!

Two years ago my back yard had a very rare visitor, a gynandromorph cardinal. For those who missed it, here is a link to the web page I setup to document this extremely rare and beautiful bird:

http://remotesensingart.com/CardinalMF/index.html

It first appeared on Jan. 14, 2011, and the last time I saw it was early in March, 2011 as it was being chased away by two male cardinals. For almost two years I have looked closely at every cardinal I saw in hopes of finding this bird again but to no avail. Then this morning as I sat down to drink my morning cup of coffee, I noticed that unmistakeable bright red head and pale body at my feeder again!. I was only able to get some shots through a window, so the quality is poor, but it's the same bird.



Hopefully it will return so I can get some decent shots and answer two burning questions left from two years ago: 1) can it/will it find a mate and 2) can it sing? I never heard it sing last time which is very unusual for both male and female cardinals. But I am very happy to see that it has managed to survive all this time.

LPA