As spring approaches, the proud and brightly plumed male Cardinal, fresh from having spent the winter in Florida, stares intently in search of a potential mate - unaware that he has arrived in Illinois too early and will freeze to death before nightfall.
I have to wonder, is this rather stocky-looking Cardinal simply failing the evolution game, or is he a victim of climate change caused by the collective output of our snowblowers?
ReplyDeleteI welcome comment from the plethora of ornithologists i know (market research) regularly visit this site, but speaking as an amateur avian expert - it is quite normal for the cardinal to appear stiff and "stocky-looking" (as you put it) after a long break, most likely spent in Key West, tracing the footprints and empty bottles of Ernest Hemingway. It was that pursuit by the cardinal, of another man's empty dream, that ended with an empty bottle, and nowhere to go, except north...too early. I cannot accept that any science will support your claim that my snowblower has done anything to this world except make it a little bit prettier and slightly more red.
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