More Animal Issues

So let's see. We've had an armadillo, a raccoon, a rat, a bunch of baby rats, and a fox come into our yard. What next?

Today we saw this beautiful cardinal hanging outside on our fence and in our tree.

I took Ava outside to see it and this bird was acting a bit odd. It kept talking to us and would move around quickly from tree branch to fence to tree branch etc. I could not figure out what was going on until Ava pointed out a tiny baby bird hanging out under the grill.

I hurried her inside b/c 1) I was not sure if the baby bird was alive 2) At this point the cardinal decided to sweep through the covered part of our patio and flew really close to me & Ava and 3) Zaphod was outside, as he is permanently, and was only 2 feet away from the baby bird. Minding his own business but I was worried that the big cardinal would somehow injure him in an effort to get to her baby.

So I ran back in and got Darren who went to check and without touching the baby assessed that it was alive. We brought Zaphod in the house temporarily and watched the birds. Eventually the baby got up and we are guessing it was just learning to fly. Kind of cool but I really would prefer it if the animals would do this elsewhere. I can do without divebombing cardinals.