Archive for September 22nd, 2011

Twice in the last week I have seen a female cardinal feed another one.  I believe she was feeding on sunflower seed.  This was unusual behavior.  The two were adult females.  And neither appeared to be hurt or injured in any way.  Once they were on the ground.  And another time on the bird feeder that had mostly sunflower seed on it.  One fed the other directly beak to beak.  This behavior had me stumped.

The dahlias keep putting out beautiful purple flowers.  My wife forgot she even planted those bulbs.  Actually two plants came up and now both had multiple buds.  They must like Fall.  They both came up among a bed of black-eyed susans.  Now I am curious how many buds will become flowers until the cold kills them.  I love gazing at each flower that blooms.