Now cardinals - that's different. We can have a 1/2 dozen couples hanging out on the fence and bushes going back and forth to the bird feeder. In early spring sometimes the bushes look like a Christmas tree w/ red balls hanging all over it.
I've never seen a Cardinal ... that sounds so cool
We are over-run with Quail, although we have a large variety of birds. They love our yard since we don't have any dogs.
They raise their babies here. The newly-hatched are super tiny and can run 90 miles an hour the first day.
Each pair have 8 to 14 young'ins, and by the middle of summer when they are all teenagers or mostly grown, we have herds of them running around.
It's nothing to look out the window, and see up to 100 quail in the yard.
They all stick together, and the family's seldom allow another family to invade their territory, and stay about 10 -20 feet away from each other until "pairing" season.
We make sure they have lots of protection, feed, and water, so they love our place.
Also have Doves, Goldfinch, Barn Owls, Magpies' and bunnies.
Most are here all year long, with the "seasonal" ones, Robins, Red Winged Crows, passing
through.
We have Killdeer that show up every year, and lay their eggs in the middle of the gravel driveway, where we park equipment.
We put highway cones around it for protection.
If I get to close to the "nest", when going to the garden, they are famous for faking an injury to draw you off.
They have quite a routine they go through. Noisy suckers too.
The eggs look just like the gravel, and so do the babies when they first hatch.
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