A lot of noise going on Or where's the camera when you need it ...

My yard is raucous with the sound of baby and adolescent birds.

The cardinal's young is already following him around the yard as he shows her/him what to eat and where to find it.

Today, beautiful sunny and warm (84°F, 10% humidity), seems to be bath day. I was sitting outside in the shade not 3 feet from the birds' water basin when first one, then two, then three young birds came down to lurch around in the water spraying themselves and everything else. One of those chubby feathered balls was just a baby yesterday, hiding on the ground behind a flower pot. Today it's an adolescent ignoring the calls of frantic parent(s) trying to warn them that there was a scary human sitting in a chair almost within arms reach. In fact an adult bird dive bombed them twice, I assume in some effort to strike some fear into the little wayward things. Perhaps they're more akin to teenagers than adolescents. They appeared to ignore all parental input.

Here's a picture (probably, unless there's more that one couple in my yard) of mamma or poppa:
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