We have a new resident in our back yard, as a cardinal I noticed over the weekend has clearly made a home out there, at least for the time being. We get tons of birds around here, but cardinals are not so common, so this is neat... I've quickly learned to recognize his call, which is about as ugly as he is handsome, a loud persistent peep peep peeping that makes it very easy to locate where he is at any given time. I started calling him Stan after famed St. Louis Cardinals baseball player Stan Musial, but since MrsBlue once had a cat named Stan, I've renamed him Lou, after Lou Brock. I thought this was a better theme to follow than Cardinal Fang or Cardinal Biggles, since nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

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