On September 13, 2022, Atlanta-based naturalist and garden expert Arty Schronce looked out his kitchen window and saw what he thought was a female cardinal ... a bird actively sitting on a spider ...

Outside my kitchen window, a scarlet cardinal and his dusky mate crack sunflower seeds. The visitors to my five birdfeeders change by the minute: goldfinches turn upside down to dip into thistle ...

Indeed, one summer when I was about 10 years old, I read in the Audubon Encyclopedias sitting on the family room shelf that there was this bird called ... the feeder — a cardinal, a Carolina ...