“Bird’s Paradise”

Do you have a favorite  “bird”   that you like? We have a crimson male  “Cardinal”  –  that has moved in  to our backyard   –  rent free!   With all of the brushy wood area just behind some thick shrubbery  and the most beautiful of “Dogwood”  trees  –   there is also a  Mulberry tree and   an evergreen  cone-berry tree   surrounding  the “Purple Martin”   house  – occupied all year round!

When I am on the telephone and have the doors and window s open, usually I am asked if I have “Birds?”   You can hear all the different birds taking time to talk and tell everybody just exactly what is going on in this neighborhood.   I have  tried putting my two-cents worth into their conversation  –  sometimes it seems as though I am in on the  “game?”

One day,  this most beautiful male “Cardinal”  landed on  my porch rail and just  looked into the window to where I was seated  and sang a few  “notes” to his mate in the tree area! He did not seem to be afraid of me  –  watching  and just did a little    hip -hop   along and on to the side  rail  and around a post and then down onto a near-by  flower pot.  He must have been talking to his mate  –  telling her that he had found  a “gold-mine”  of stuff  for their nest!

Each day,  my  “Cardinal friend”  would come to visit me and do his recycle through the stuff  he was finding on the porch!  Just the male comes and visits and came and sat on the porch rail, while my visiting  nurse was here.  Made quite an impression on her that I was  “friends with the birds.”

The birds do so much  “chirping”  and then like  “lightning”  take off and  “zoom”  across the yard as if they are headed in to  “Home Plate!”

I am lucky to have my own  “Cardinal ball team”  playing in the back yard   and they have   “youngsters”  getting ready  to keep the  “games” going!


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