Best of Twitter: Recreating the St. Louis Cardinals Logo with a Real Bird

Twitter is just the best sometimes.

For instance, the other day I was making some of my usual meaningless observations about birds, this time comparing a photo of a Baltimore Oriole on my feeder pole to one of the logos of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team:

At the feeders with the wide stance like pic.twitter.com/SViLBxxm9Y

— The Birdist (@TheBirdist) May 12, 2020

Then, I wondered how close one could actually get to replicating that logo, which led me to:

I feel like this one is ripe for replication. Can someone make a little yellow bat perch with the attached word mark and get a photo of a cardinal sitting on it? pic.twitter.com/MSiCeSKyv1

— The Birdist (@TheBirdist) May 12, 2020

I expected nothing to happen. Certainly lazy old me wasn't going to do anything about it. But then, Twitter. User Tess Rouillard (@WhiskyEyeBrews) actually went and built the dang Cardinals logo, and put it up near her feeders! What!

Bait set. Now we wait 😆 pic.twitter.com/WBMQZ0Kf4Q

— Tessa “Burn it all down” Rouillard (@WhiskyEyeBrews) May 12, 2020

The trap, as she said, was set. It didn't take long for birds to visit, though they weren't the species we were looking for. A Common Grackle was first up to bat.

Wrong bird pic.twitter.com/VYiIgTUQgh

— Tessa “Burn it all down” Rouillard (@WhiskyEyeBrews) May 12, 2020

Then a Blue Jay, which is actually a pretty hilarious mashup of two different MLB teams:

Wrong bird. Guess we know what the next project is. pic.twitter.com/0scDyFps1h

— Tessa “Burn it all down” Rouillard (@WhiskyEyeBrews) May 13, 2020

Then, this morning, less than a day after I originally posted the thing to Twitter, Tessa and her feeders came through. A real live Northern Cardinal perched on the Cardinals logo!! Incredible!

@TheBirdist aaahahahahah yaassssss. Home RUUUNNN #backyardbirds #birdtwitter @Cardinals pic.twitter.com/05wpS8vHOc

— Tessa “Burn it all down” Rouillard (@WhiskyEyeBrews) May 13, 2020

I think, frankly, that this is one of the coolest things to ever happen on the internet. I think Tessa Rouillard so much for her ingenuity and creativity and motivation. I'm hoping that the Cardinals team will see this and give her some credit for her work! Sports!