• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    9 months ago

    Yeah I think the colors were throwing me off. It looks almost green-yellow in this picture.

    Although I don’t see a black cap like this on any cardinals male or female. But I can’t think of what else it would be.

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        9 months ago

        It’s a shadow. You can see it on the beak a little bit. It’s more noticeable due to the extremely saturated colors.

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          9 months ago

          Someone else remarked about the color saturation. I did a little bit of adjusting in Google Photos, including moving the HDR slider to 50%. Is that a bad thing? I like how it helps bring out the details.

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          9 months ago

          Yeah, maybe. As for the cap, she visited again when the sun was at a different angle and her cap feathers aren’t black. They’re reddish brown. Between the lighting and the grime from her wound it just looked black.

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            9 months ago

            Ya, the images showing her eye definitely don’t show the cap being as prominent. But that eye, specialists might be curious. I am most certainly not a specialist 🙂 essentially, it was folks like you that caught on to that with finches in thr first place! I’ll stop bugging you about it haha