When an extremely rare yellow northern cardinal showed up in his backyard, a Florida bird lover reached for his camera and started filming. Three months, and over 500 hours of footage, later, a special relationship with the bird had formed. Jeremiah Vreeland, 39, from Port Saint Lucie, told The Epoch Times that he and his neighbor first noticed the yellow cardinal in early April of 2021. “I had seen him briefly, two to three times, chasing red cardinals around our back yard,” Vreeland said. “At the time, I did not know how rare yellow cardinals were. Towards the end of April, my neighbor asked if I had seen the cardinal and explained that they are very rare.” Elsewhere in Port Saint Lucie, someone had filmed a yellow cardinal during 2019 and named him Sunny. Convinced his cardinal must be the same bird, Vreeland kept the name. He fed Sunny a combination of …