Loading ...everyone has heard about catbirds, but we have dogbirds here at treefrog manor. for at least three years running, we have had cardinals raising babies near the house. the last two years they nested in an avocado tree in the greenhouse, this year they are in a small oak off the back porch.
(pic stolen off the web – i’m not that good a photographer)
they have found the dogfood bowl, and they are exploiting it. it’s just store brand dry kibble (21% protein). they seen to like it, and make many trips to the bowl, taking only one morsel at a time.
since the species description for cardinals describes them as seed eaters with no mention of dogfood, this must be a development new to ornithology. i am naming the new species AVICANIS KIBBELLIVORUS for obvious reasons.
dragon, the former sole user of the bowl has been able, so far, to restrain his enthusiasm about this development