"Leonard Blaisdell" > wrote in message
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> In article >, jmcquown
> > wrote:
>
>> It's a pileated woodpecker. Looks like it got stuck in the 1980's with
>> a punk hair-do.
>
> I went to LaCrosse, WI for my granddaughter's graduation. I hadn't been
> out of Nevada for many years. I saw my first cardinal. I imagined that
> they were the size of jays. They're a red sparrow with a crest.
> Nevertheless, it was the most important bird on my bucket list.
> I'd put a pileated woodpecker second.
>
We had lots of cardinals in NY. Very pretty!