I live in Northern California and visited friends in Vermont this summer. Though I used to live on the east coast, it was in a time before I was a birder or even bird-aware at all (what a dull, embarrassing previous life that was!) so I was very excited to see some eastern birds for essentially the first time. I was absolutely thrilled to see a cardinal! And he looked an awful lot like your six year old's depiction :)
I live in Northern California and visited friends in Vermont this summer. Though I used to live on the east coast, it was in a time before I was a birder or even bird-aware at all (what a dull, embarrassing previous life that was!) so I was very excited to see some eastern birds for essentially the first time. I was absolutely thrilled to see a cardinal! And he looked an awful lot like your six year old's depiction :)