Two days in a row

I'm blipping a cardinal for the second day in a row as he was the best looking of the photos.  This one was in the open and not partially covered by brush.  Cardinal blips may get to be as frequent as monarch butterfly blips were during the summer.

It was a high ISO day in which the sun should have appeared from behind the clouds in mid-afternoon, but never did so.  Went to Lake Bartlett for photos of common goldeneye or gadwall (types of ducks), but given poor lighting conditions and distance it did not work out. These ducks were at the lake, and may try again within the next few days.

Later I walked the creek behind the Oswego Home Depot, an area with brush and large trees.  This cardinal lives here.  Other birds included a couple red-tailed hawks cruising along the creek toward the golf course.