Today along Ontario Pathways near Phelps, NY, I watched as a male and
female cardinal appeared to be dining on cherry blossoms. I couldn't tell
if they were eating them or were after the nectar. They didn't seem to keep
a blossom in their bills long enough to be eating them. But they were
certainly
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> Folks - a question.
> Today I watched a male Cardinal in a cherry tree. He was picking at the
> blossoms, putting them in his mouth, then quickly discarding them. He was
> grabbing t
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Today I watched a male Cardinal in a cherry tree. He was picking at the
blossoms, putting them in
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Maybe sucking on the nectar? Have you ever done that to a jasmine flower?
Jill
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Folks - a question
Folks - a question.
Today I watched a male Cardinal in a cherry tree. He was picking at the
blossoms, putting them in his mouth, then quickly discarding them. He was
grabbing them from the stem end and not the blossom end. He was doing it
for quite some time. The path beneath the trees was covered
