Monstrosity

So yeah, I put up bird feeders... and real birds started showing up. Jeff's seen Mourning Doves, and today a female cardinal. Then he told me a new bird showed up. I saw it and said "That is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. Time to go get the camera!"

I didn't know what it was until 6 megapixels showed me the following:



Yeah, turns out it was a female cardinal with nary a feather on its head.

Lovely.

I apologize for the quality; I was shooting through a screen, then two panes of filthy glass. That said, here's what you could have been stuck with:



Let it not be said that shooting JPEG leaves you with broken images.