We have a male and female Cardinal that frequent our backyard in the early mornings and just about dusk in the evenings. We call them “Red” and “Birdie.” They are so sweet.

Birdie waits atop the feeder while Red goes down and gets some seed for her. I’m always hoping to get a good photograph of them together, but it never happened… until now.

It was just about dusk and I looked out and Red was feeding at the mealworm feeder, which is usually only used by Bluebirds, Hermit Thrushes and Yellow-rumped Warblers. I’d never seen a Cardinal there before. Birdie was sitting atop one of the other feeder, waiting for Red. And then he went to feed her…

So beautiful, don’t you think?