It all started out being as cute as can be. Now it is annoying. The culprit??? A male cardinal. He found his way to one of our living room windows yesterday and started pecking away. It didn't take long for our cat, Oreo, to become very interested. The next thing I knew the cat was jumping up at the window creating an awful noise with the plantation blinds. I finally decided to raise the blinds so the cat could see better. Before long our little dog, Millenni joined in on the fun and both animals were jumping at the window playing with the bird that continued to tease them. I was certain the cardinal was only seeing his own reflection in the glass and attacking himself but as the day progressed I changed my mind. At one point I fed both animals and I couldn't believe what happened next. The cat and dog had both left the window to eat and the cardinal started pecking on the glass looking for them. It was like he was saying... hey, come back here, where did you go... He wasn't doing his normal thing with the window but instead just taking his beak and pecking in the lower corner then twisting his head and trying to peer into to the window to see the animals he had been tormenting. When Millenni and Oreo returned he would proceed to tease them again and again and each time they left he would start his pecking, begging them to return. This went on all day long yesterday and first thing this morning when we awoke it was to the sound of the cardinal pecking on the window wanting his buddies to come back to play with him again. I think it is going to be a long day. Below are a few photos I took of the trio. I kept trying to get a good shot of the animals in action and the bird flying but was never lucky enough to get one that was good enough.
