Well, you can't see it, but this week a female cardinal visited our grape vine several mornings to feast on the wild grapes growing there.
It was a bad year for pears in out little garden--only three after the squirrels got to them--but the grape vine, which is a volunteer one growing out of our compost heap, had lots of grapes.
They aren't very good to eat because they don't have much flesh, the seeds are big, and the taste is sour. But obviously that hasn't stopped the cardinals from feasting.
That we have cardinals at all in the backyard is something new, and probably the result of climate change. Twenty years ago they were a rare sight in the neighborhood but now are rather frequent visitors.
I have, as you might imagine, mixed feelings about this. Nice to see the birds, but not happy about what their presence indicates.
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