Annual Visitor

Every year at this time the Cardinals move into a mating mode and become very defensive about their territory. We have tinted windows and the birds come and see their reflection and peck at the window by the hour.

For Doris this is a problem because the arrive at 7am and stay pretty well the rest of the day. They give us an opportunity to observe them up close as they lose all fear and you can within inches. Other people have this same problem and try to find ways of minimizing the problem. Some hang cloth up to the window, use moving objects, noisemakers and a dozen other items with the same result, the bird wins.

Here we expect this to last for about a month and I wish the bird would pick on another window and leave Doris alone.