Cardinals

I See Food!

Back and forth, non stop, the cardinal kept feeding the baby. All that energy spent on offspring that wasn't his.
Brown-headed Cowbird fledgling (Molothrus ater)
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

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