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| The cardinals have been calling and acting like family for about 48 hours, but I could not find the nest or any children till late yesterday afternoon. The adult were calling, "click click click". From the ground I was hearing, "Peep peep". Time to explore. Against the building wall behind the bushes there was a baby, an obvious new fledge. Parents calling with food in beak. Baby sitting. Just look at that face! |
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| Parents want baby off the ground. |
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| Baby moved from wood chips onto sidewalk. It wants to be a doorman??? Bad spot. It could get walked on. It's a tiny thing, walnut size. |
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| Thank goodness, back into the woodchip off the path. Parents calling frantically trying to get it to fly up. |
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| No response to potential food???? This is weird. |
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| Now it wants food. |
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| Wow! It flew "up", a whole 2" up onto a leaf. |
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| It only ate as much as it wanted, no gorging, and then it fell asleep. |
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| Both parents called from above, from tree branches, from building entrance, from window ledges. |
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| This baby chose leaf bed and stayed put, probably not ready for ascent. It will fly today. |
It's possible there's a second baby. There was a lot of clicking going on. Will explore further today.
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