Cardinal rule of fine dining

If you were a beautiful Cardinal would you feast on worms and insects?   I think not.   You'd probably do like this fellow and has tasty, succulent morsels of sun-baked baby elm buds.  The birds are apparently into fine-dining at the Mandeville Nature Center  (across the lake from New Orleans).

--steve buser

Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis, eating, Mandeville, birds, nature center, Louisiana

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The trees are alive with the sounds of birds

We were in Mandeville again today, checking on Linda's parents.   When we woke up, we decided to take the dog on a walk down to the lakefront.   We weren't even out of the driveway when I notice that the trees seemed to be on fire with the sounds of singing birds -- dozens of them on every block.   On the trip I sighted more than a dozen cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis), maybe more.  At the lakefront were the normal gulls and an occasional egret.  Some coots were floating down near the harbor.  

On the way back to her parents house, more of the same, including this Cardinal who let me shoot about a dozen shots until I got focused in and all the settings right.

--steve buser