Thread is old, but two mornings ago, the scarlet avenger made an unabashed reappearance at a bedroom window. Albeit very pretty, he is searingly angry at rediscovering his old adversary (his reflection) as yet unvanquished.
Theories:
1. He has either raised a son to whom he has carefully...
As our windows are now smeared with poop skids, drunken highlighter marks and soap scum, I don't think they can get much dirtier. I think our property taxes should be adjusted based upon current appearance devaluation. I may throw a mattress outside to go with the shower curtain liners...
I wish I could exchange our model cardinal for a garage attack cardinal. Unfortunately, the only one we have had to be a psycho bearing a grudge :idunno
If my fingers weren't so frozen from hanging screens and shower curtains while balancing on a ladder in 2 feet of snow, I'd pull out my wallet and offer you $2 for one of those feral cat rentals
I think the cardinal is winning.
There's so much poop by the sliding glass door I think I need to borrow the chickens' poop board to collect this stuff for spring gardening.
We are going to try contractor's plastic on the windows and doors next, if this doesn't work, he may need to be thrown...
It's true. He'll be back tomorrow morning and this place looks like a refugee camp. 😩 Cardinals at the birdfeeder and singing in the pine trees are great but scarlet avengers on a window crusade at 6am are not. Trying to save him but he is too busy barfighting!
House under siege in northern MI, 6 degrees, 2 feet of snow.
Male cardinal engaged in guerilla warfare campaign targeting all glass windows located on northeastern quadrant of domicile. Cardinal calls his reflection inflammatory names prior to repeated attacks at alternating locations...