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SUPERIOR — For those of you who remember my visit from a cardinal in late July, I’ve got an exciting update: It seems there is a family of cardinals in my neighborhood.
For those that don’t remember the story, I grabbed a bird feeder that belonged to my late mother and hung it just outside my picture window. In no time at all, a male Northern Cardinal showed up to snack on the sunflower seeds in the feeder. I was very excited (yes, I know I’m getting pretty old if a bird at my feeder is making me excited — or maybe the fact I have a feeder means I’m old?).
Anywho, I was excited because not only had I never seen a cardinal in my neighborhood, but also cardinals were my mom’s favorite bird.
Fast forward to the day the original photos ran in the pages of the Telegram, and I started seeing what I learned was an adult female Northern Cardinal. Double score!
I made sure to keep my feeder stocked with plenty of sunflower seeds for my new friends and the local squirrels. My front yard looks more like the ground of a baseball dugout than a yard, but I’ll take that trade any day.
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Then, to my surprise, I looked out one morning and noticed a bunch of small red and gray birds picking at the seeds on the ground. Soon an adult male and adult female swooped onto branches to keep an eye on the younger cardinals below. Of course I took out the camera and got some family photos of my new neighbors.
