Anti-Snow Birds

Search the internet, and you will find dozens of pictures like this - photographs and paintings – of Cardinals in the snow. 

That’s something you will never see here at the Boggy Thicket. 

First, because it only snows here once every ten years or so, and second, because our Cardinals are good ol’ redneck birds that bail at the first hint of cold weather.

Bird-watching websites, the Audubon Society and National Geographic will all tell you that Cardinals do not migrate, but tell that to the Cardinals around here.  As late as the end of September, we had well over a dozen in our yard, but they started disappearing with the first cold front.  We haven’t had a freeze yet – it came close around Halloween and again last week – but our Cardinals are long gone. 
We’ve only seen one in the past two weeks.