One-eyed Cardinal

8 responses to “One-eyed Cardinal”

1. Out Walking the Dog

   January 14, 2016 at 9:45 am

   Odin, metamorphosed!
   Fascinating sighting. The wound looks old, which would mean this is one tough and adaptable bird. Hard to imagine.

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   1. mthew

      January 14, 2016 at 10:31 am

      The birds in the ramble are rather coddled, though, with several bird feeders hanging from the trees and freelancers distributing food, like the lady who was tossing out peanuts.

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   2. mthew

      January 14, 2016 at 10:34 am

      Hadn’t realized Odin was one-eyed. No wonder he needed two smart corvids to “see.”

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      1. Out Walking the Dog

         January 14, 2016 at 7:04 pm

         Oh yes. He traded one eye for a drink from Mimir’s well of wisdom. Plucked out his own eye and tossed it into the well.

      2. mthew

         January 14, 2016 at 7:48 pm

         Drunken Vikings, sheesh!

2. CLCtreeservices

   January 14, 2016 at 10:44 am

   What an amazing image to capture.

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3. Paul Lamb

   January 15, 2016 at 5:25 am

   A friend documented a robin (her name is, coincidentally, Robin) in Port Townsend, Washington that had a stick running through its body, from back to breast, exposed at both ends. She had photos of it from three years running.

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   1. mthew

      January 15, 2016 at 8:27 am

      Key to the understanding of avian migration was the discovery of storks in Europe with African spears run through them. The earliest preserved is from 1822. It had long been a question of where the storks went in the fall, where they came from in the spring. Uniquely African evidence among birds who escaped hunting went a long way in verifying the long distance migration.

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