When I had my house, I had a bird feeder outside my kitchen window and really enjoyed the wide variety of birds that came to the feeder.

I had Black-capped Chickadees, Nuthatches, Cardinals, Tufted Titmouse, yellow finches, and then Woodpeckers who ate the bugs in the tree bark.

I really missed that when I lost the house.

I kept my wood feeder, however, and I managed to keep it though boxes of stuff were stolen.

Wisely, I had taken it with me, tucked away in my vehicle. It’s a thrill to be able to feed the birds again now that I am off the streets. ( For now. If rump goes thru with getting rid of Section 8 and Social Security, then I will be back on the streets again and this time I won’t make it. I’m too old for this stuff).

So I wanted to share a cute thing I saw–

A male Cardinal has been coming to the feeder once a week. He would sound his warning chirp as he scoped out the area before eating.

I have loved the Cardinals for their sticking out the winter in Indiana. Robins always left during the harshest part in late December, January and February. It was a thrill to us Hoosiers when the robins would return in Spring.

So Mr. Cardinal brought a lady Cardinal with him the other day. He found a mate!

He took a seed and fed her. It was the cutest thing.

Birds are way more complex than I ever knew. This isn’t the first time I have read of generosity of birds. A story in the magazine Birds and Blooms featured a reader who said she didn’t like grackles until she watched one day as a grackles was shoving seed on the ground. The reader was annoyed at the mess he was making until she saw a grackle with a broken wing on the ground eating the seed the other had pushed out!

I just wanted to share a more positive post for a moment. 🐦