What's your cardinal story? Readers share tales of the birds that brighten our winters
Did you hear the one about how a cardinal defeated a spider's web?
By Val Cunningham
Special to the Star Tribune
March 9, 2021 — 9:15am
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The longer winter goes on, with its monochrome palette, leafless branches and profound silence, the more we appreciate the brilliantly red Northern cardinal.
Cardinals visit our backyards and feeders every month of the year, but in winter they seem to be in nature's spotlight. Unlike many songbirds, they combine brilliant plumage with a melodious song (with many other birds, it's one or the other). There's nothing quite like the sight of brilliant red birds fluttering down to feeders or the snow under them on a winter evening.