Pyrrhuloxia On A Hot Day At The Feeder — Images by kenne
Dapper in looks and cheerful in song, the Pyrrhuloxia or desert cardinal is a tough-as-nails songbird
of baking hot deserts in the American Southwest and northern Mexico. — Source: allaboutbirds.org
We haven’t seen too many Pyrrhuoxias coming to the feeder and fountain this summer,
but this guy is interested in cooling off from our triple-digit temperatures here in Tucson.
This Pyrrhuoxia looks like an immature male because of the dark bill. Adults have a yellow bill.
— kenne
Pyrrhuloxia (July 17, 2022) — Images by kenne
Pyrrhuloxia — Image by kenne
Nest Building
I watch her gathering twigs
in the descending light
of the mountain forests.
There is something in her
movements suggesting she
is following nature’s plan.
I focus carefully through
a forest window waiting
for the right moment.
— kenne
Pyrrhuloxia In Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne
The mountains that enfold the vale
With walls of granite, steep and high,
Invite the fearless foot to scale
Their stairway toward the sky.
— from “Doors of Daring” by Henry van Dyke
Pyrrhuloxia Photographed in Sabino Canyon by kenne
This male pyrrhuloxia looks a lot like a female Northern Cardinal and its song is nearly identical to the cardinal.
— kenne
Pyrrhuloxia — Image by kenne
— kenne
