Category — Birds

When my dad came to visit last October he bought and put up a bluebird house on an old light pole in my backyard. This turned out to be a great choice as the bluebirds love it and I hear that black snakes and coons have a harder time getting up a wide pole if they are in search of eggs or babies. I have no problem with nature being nature, but I would also appreciate my bluebirds having some babies that make it to have little families of their own.

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If you were my neighbor this morning, you might wonder why the crazy person next door was running out of her house and yelling a lot. Well there is a good explanation for all the ruckus. There was a mean cardinal chasing a nice cardinal in my backyard and because of it the nice one flew into my window. Upon being stunned to the point of near paralysis, the mean cardinal came in for the kill. I couldn’t let this happen, so I scared off the mean cardinal and then sat by my back door while the stunned nice one sat at the bottom of the stairs to protect the nice one until he felt good enough to fly away. This took around an hour, in the meantime the mean cardinal kept making bold attempts to kill the poor injured guy so I kept opening the door and yelling at it to go away.
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