Now all you need is to find that your playful poltergeist followed you to your new home.....

MaryAnne, I kind of wonder if he is hurt? Maybe hurt a wing and can't fly right/much?

Maryanne, he has lots of friends.
There are more Cardinals now than other birds, lock the doors.

Pack him some lunch in a road map with my address and phone number, I'll take him off your hands.
He can live in the sunroom. :0)

Great to see you, girlfriend. ((((HUGS)))

seeing as how we are in migration time, he may have moved on ahead of his loved one looking for the proper nesting site and when she shows up he'll tell her, hey i sat there all night and they never bothered me so this is a safe place to nest

Well, he spent the whole night on the hook. Very strange bird. When I left this morning, he chirped at me (now if I can only teach my DS to do that!), flew to the azalea and watched me. So, his wings work just fine. I figured that was the end of it, he would finally fly off. Nope. When I came home, he was sitting on a bush out front. He didn't like the trash can I was dragging behind me so he chirped in protest and flew into the pine tree. As I was unlocking the door, he flew back to his roost on the hook. I don't think he has any intention of leaving.

Single for the first time in 20+ years and my first suitor has feathers! Not exactly what I was hoping for...

You could do worse, LOL. Considering the number of toads I've kissed before I found my frog prince.

How cheerful to have a resident cardinal. He is likley staking his territory. Nesting season is starting soon here, and prolly already has in your area.

LOL!!

Take the feathered friend, old friend...considering you told me the last one was a member of the serpent family.

Good to see ya.
Miss you.

MaryAnne, glad he's okay. He just likes you. Smiles. This morning when I got up I raised the blinds so the cats can look out the bedroom window. Looking down to the ground and what to my wondering eyes should appear? A giant cardinal.. lol. it was a mutant! The biggest cardinal I've ever seen and it wasn't just fluffed up for the cold. Making it's way on the ground, picking up seeds and such near the hydrangea. I thought of you.

Your story reminded me of this cardinal that became my friend years ago. He just flew up to a nearby fence one spring when I was clearing out some beds and would follow me around the yard, watching for treats I'd imagine. Well, after a couple days this robin joined him. The rest of that summer the cardinal and the robin would both follow me around.. together. Sitting close to each other. I named the cardinal Henry and he came to see me for about 5 years as I recall. Then one year it was a different one. I said it was his son. Yup, called him Henry Jr.. That one brought his wife.

maybe someone in the neighborhood had been feeding him either sunflower seeds or some other cardinal food and then suddenly stopped, maybe he is asking for something, try a half an orange if you don't have sunflowers

Day 4 and he's still here. Very strange. He hung around this morning on his little perch and then flew off when the sun came up to do whatever male cardinals do. I was out most of the day but, like clock work, he was back at 6 pm to resume his watch over my front door.

He's a pretty large cardinal and last night was cold so he puffed up to stay warm. I know he was perfectly fine, but all night long I thought about him. Face it, I'm a softie. Had it been a stray cat, I would have offered a blanket but what do you offer a wild bird?

I'll tell you, other than the droppings he's leaving behind, he's the perfect companion! LOL!

Mum thinks someone has or had been feeding him and stopped also, probably whoever lived here before. There is seed in the feeders in the back yard but, now that he's here and he seems to want to stay, I will put one somewhere out front. Of course, Mum also thought that perhaps he was sent by a higher being to either watch over me or as a sign that the "bad weather" in my life is over and the rebirth of spring has begun.

Cardinals and Mum's, gotta luv em...

Hummmmnnnn!
He's pretty to look at, doesn't steal the remote.
probably doesn't like FOOTBALL.
He sings to you.

All he wants is a little food, water and a place to
rest his little feathers.

Sounds good to me, you could do a lot worse, hon, let him
stay and buy him a few sunflower seeds. :0)

I too have a robin who follows me around when I garden. The beds sit lying beneath their leaf covering until yesterday. I must've moved the leaves over the beds in October. Sure enough robin was out right after I finished clearing away and burying seeds, looking for his worms. LF was having a hard time (trying to keep up with mom who can really rake long and hard, poor fella doesn't know what he's up against :), and sat down to take a breather. As I sat next to him, plop!, mr. robin ended up about a foot or two away and went to work rooting around for his worms. No more frustration, as LF smiled and quit being tense. I asked him if he wished he was inside playing a video game. Nope. Then we stopped to listen to the chirping calls and the answers. Nothing like a bird to set you straight on the path again. I'll be thinking of you and coconut every time I see a cardinal now.