# Birdwatching

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birdwatching/838381>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 9, 2019, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birdwatching/838381 "2019-08-09T00:16:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/birdwatching/838381/1 "2019-08-09T00:16:46Z")

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I’m not really much of a bird watcher really, but this watching is taking place about 3 feet from my head, just on the other side of the window.

A fledgling cardinal managed to hop about 2 feet off the ground into a bush under my window, then seems to have called it good enough for a days work, because he started doing his whiny little chirps until mom and dad started bring him fat bugs to eat. It’s hard not to notice every time a bright red flash streaks into the corner of my vision to shove something else down his throat.  
I am hoping they got something else for plan B for the night however, because a couple of the neighborhood cats patrol along those bushes a lot of nights.