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[telophase]

Update on the cardinal that hangs out around the window. He's not fighting the cardinal in the window as much anymore. You see, there's this one lone parking spot next to the dumpster (the dumpster has a nice brick enclosure, so we don't have to see it) for the head of the housekeeping staff here. And the head of the housekeeping staff has just gotten himself a bright, shiny, new truck.

A bright, shiny, red new truck.

It's painfully obvious that cardinals don't have a lot of neurons to spare for details like, say, species, shape, or even size, and instead believe that red means rival, because he's turned his attentions to the truck now. He occasionally comes back and pecks on the cardinal in the window for form's sake, but his heart just isn't in it because he's so preoccupied with that big, shiny, new cardinal in the parking space.

I think the upside of all of this is that every day at 3:00, when he manages to drive off that big, shiny, new cardinal, he's probably so proud of himself he could bust, as opposed to the cardinal in the window who never takes the hint and leaves. I doubt he's devoted many neurons to remembering that the big, shiny, new cardinal was here yesterday and the day before, and he certainly has no clue that it'll be here tomorrow, but if it gives him a proper sense of duty fulfilled, who am I to complain?

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[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

This is hilarious. Does he fly at it, do displays in front of it, or what?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Flies at it, pecking it and beating it with his wings. Not constantly - if he were human, he'd have ADD. Just every so often a flurry of attack lasting five or so seconds, then he gets distracted by something shiny and wanders off.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

* In the interests of truth, I'm relying on my coworker's reports, since my blinds aren't open far enough to see the truck from where I sit, and opening the blinds would involve climbing on my desk and reaching over the monitor to get the cord, so it's not really worth it.

Hey! I'm a cardinal too!

[espion.livejournal.com]

because he's so preoccupied with that big, shiny, new cardinal in the parking space

I've been preoccupying myself with visions of a huge bird tethered in a parking space.

Re: Hey! I'm a cardinal too!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And with four-wheel drive! XD

[pzb.livejournal.com]

Oh my...that's...that's just....Male. I don't know that there's any other way to discribe it. "It's bigger than me (regardless of what IT is) so therefore, I must fight it! Prove myself a REAL man!"

Ahhh...yes.... heh.

[rustybitch.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that this is not Cardinal as ordained by the Pope; could it be...Santa?