{"id":2548,"date":"2009-04-05T06:34:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T11:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2009-04-05T06:34:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T11:34:27","slug":"fearless-as-a-mama-cardinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/fearless-as-a-mama-cardinal\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearless as a mama cardinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2552\" style=\"width: 154px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/silver-necklace-pod-bloom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2552\" title=\"silver-necklace-pod-bloom\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/silver-necklace-pod-bloom.jpg\" alt=\"Silver Necklace Pod flower\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silver Necklace Pod flower<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Sunday April 5, 2009. <\/em> The trees are full of mulberries and loquats and the critters in AndreaLand are having a feast. About a dozen little wrens descended upon the mulberry late yesterday afternoon and it was already full of cardinals and bluejays and squirrels. The tree came alive!\u00a0 A couple of days before I was sitting on my back porch, just rocking and relaxing.\u00a0 I can always tell where the cardinals are because the male chirps so loudly.\u00a0 I could hear him and followed his voice to the silver necklace pod bush, where I saw him doing a song and dance for my cat Izzy down on the ground, yards away.\u00a0 I thought, now that&#8217;s not smart&#8230; then I saw the mama cardinal flying to and fro in another part of the yard with straw in her mouth, and I realized it was her mate doing the dance to distract Izzy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2554\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bird-cardinal-at-bath72.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2554\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2554\" title=\"bird-cardinal-at-bath72\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bird-cardinal-at-bath72-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mama cardinal\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama cardinal<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She was, in fact, building her nest just 40&#8243; off the ground in my eleganus hedge at the back porch door.\u00a0\u00a0 My first thought was &#8220;Why not just build it right in the cat&#8217;s dish?\u00a0 Izzy can reach that high standing up and he and YinYang are in and out that door all day.&#8221; Then I realized, she&#8217;s fearless!\u00a0 She builds her nest where she wants to build it and knows she doesn&#8217;t vibe in a place where the cats can see her.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve built their nests too low before.\u00a0 I wait until the mom and dad are at the bird bath outside the office window, then I sneak around and check out the eggs.\u00a0 No eggs yet for these two.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Arial; color: #8000ff;\">,\u00b8\u00b8,\u00f8\u00a4\u00ba\u00b0`\u00b0\u00ba\u00a4 :\u00a6:-<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horizonsmagazine.com\/CD_Page\/Downloads.html\" target=\"_blank\">Connecting with your Angels, Guides, Teachers<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Arial; color: #8000ff;\">\u00f8\u00a4\u00ba\u00b0`\u00b0\u00ba\u00a4 :\u00a6:- <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Free mp3 file<\/em><\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horizonsmagazine.com\/CD_Page\/Universal_Manager.html\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Manager<\/a> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>with $10 purchase<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/fearless-as-a-mama-cardinal\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Fearless as a mama cardinal&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/fearless-as-a-mama-cardinal\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/fearless-as-a-mama-cardinal\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/fearless-as-a-mama-cardinal\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Fearless%20as%20a%20mama%20cardinal&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/fearless-as-a-mama-cardinal\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday April 5, 2009. The trees are full of mulberries and loquats and the critters in AndreaLand are having a feast. About a dozen little wrens descended upon the mulberry late yesterday afternoon and it was already full of cardinals and bluejays and squirrels. The tree came alive!\u00a0 A couple of days before I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}