One day in July 2017, the attentive eye of Rex McDaniel found a late Northern cardinal nest. Very active, low to the ground in the shrubs. July is somewhat late in the season for cardinals to be nesting. Most of the resident species—wrens, chickadees, titmice, robins—nest early. By July parent birds are beginning to molt. Feathers grow faster in the warm weather.
Click: late cardinal nest.
Photograph/graphic by his friend Chuck Cooper.
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