Go to where you’re appreciated.
So the moral of this comic is that you’re always more appreciated when you show up and contribute somewhere people aren’t expecting to find you in.
For example, a certain Academy Award nominated actress, in the comment section of a niche tech forum.
Cardinals are definitely a good bird even in their native range. They should have used a house wren or something.
Never have I heard someone say they were bored of cardinals, even where they’re common; everyone gets excited when they see one around here :)
I agree. They are common where I live and I don’t usually see a lot of them, but they a beautiful birds.
It’s especially great that they aren’t migratory birds, so you get to see these fattened little red fluffballs all winter. They really look striking against the snow.
Same with robins, they’re an incredibly common bird, but they are also so handsome.
Yes! I love seeing fat robins especially because their little red waistcoats make it so much more pronounced haha. They’re very cute, 10/10 bird.
Am Australian, can confirm. Seeing my first wild cardinal and bluejay were like what seeing an echidna or koala for the rest of the world would be like (except I went to them, rather than them come to me like the comic)… You’ve seen them on TV, now there they are IRL, like meeting a celebrity.
Was very special seeing a squirrel for the first time, and a woodpecker. Growing up in the southern hemisphere isn’t just cool for the unusual animals we have, but for the ‘common’ animals we don’t.
Whoa, you guys don’t have squirrels?? That is somehow very interesting to me
This is like why I emigrated, except it didn’t work
Got go somewhere where humans are rare.
So Svalbard or Antarctica it is.
State bird of Indiana. Pretty common, but I always get excited when I see one.
Better to be a big fish in a small pond, than a small fish in a big pond.
Red Cardinal, Blue Jays, Yellow Finches, seems like some places have a whole rainbow of birds!
Blue jays are my faaavorite (next to my crowbros of course) 💙🖤
I love it when I’m on a road trip and can get a photo of me next to the “welcome to this state” sign. It’s not an easy task. Rarely are those signs positioned in tourist photo-friendly places.
Usually along a high-speed highway with no place to turn out and park. So you just zoom by it and wish you could have taken a picture.
In south carolina, I always keep my bird feeder with plenty of fresh nuts for them. They are my favorite bird
Cardinals and bluejays. They’re assholes but they’re pretty.
