Jan Lewis says:

Thanks Ellen! It was so cool to see these vireos devour the berries! I had a really hard time deciding which image to submit this time (well, I do every time, really! lol). I had a shot of a female northern cardinal who has visited my feeders over the past few months. She is perfectly beautiful on one side, but she sustained some kind of injury on the opposite side and her eye is completely missing. I thought she had succumbed but saw her again recently and the open wound had healed, though she is obviously still one-eyed. I was just afraid the image might be too disturbing (even though it was one that primarily showed her good side, with just enough of the other side to see that something was amiss.)