The male cardinal's mate shows him her back after shooing off the female Pyrrhuloxia; is he looking chagrined? For the earlier stages of the drama, see http://www.pbase.com/image/132952987 and http://www.pbase.com/image/133611193 , and for a less entertainingly anthropomorphic interpretation of it all, see the caption at http://www.pbase.com/tgrey/seq_cardinal_pyrrhuloxia .