{"id":1109081,"date":"2018-09-02T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=35a7ffdbca1298e7deaab6daa194209d"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:58:53","slug":"cardinals-doing-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/cardinals-doing-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals Doing Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Northern cardinals nest in the garden behind my condo every year; it’s a good spot for them with trees, water, and food.<\/p>\n

They stop by my porchoccasionally and I give them snacks of raisins and peanuts. For the past few days the female pictured above has been going out of her way to make sure I see her when she visits;<\/p>\n

she flutters in front of the window or lands on the sill and looks in while chipping loudly.<\/p>\n

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Not coincidentally, a male cardinal has been stopping by the porch with two big babies in tow. He feeds them mouth-to-mouth or flits around nervously while they feed themselves. The male and female haven’t come to the porch together for a while. Maybe they are working different shifts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The male is easily spooked when the youngsters are with him and they all fly away when I try to photograph them so adon’t have a 2016 family photo yet. But here is a picture of one of the baby porch cardinals from a previous year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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