Northern Cardinal
©Lorene Cook
Published:
March 19, 2007
Lorene Cook photographed this Northern Cardinal after a Kentucky ice storm.
The cardinal
(Cardinalis cardinalis) was perched outside Cook's home in Walton, Kentucky, after a storm had coated the branches with ice. Cook, a great-grandmother, said she was bored and housebound when she snapped the picture, using a Nikon D80 and a 300mm lens.
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