In May I found a very young baby bird in the middle of the road. No place to leave him so I took him home. Amazingly he survived.
After a month I released him.
He came back.
After nearly a dozen releases with close calls from a hawk, snake and cat plus the other birds kept kicking his butt, we decided he could stay. We were given a huge cage we put in our sunroom. At dawn I open the cage doors and at night I close him up. He virtually housebroke himself because he flies into the cage to relieve himself.
He’s as smart as any crow and has shown great problem solving skills.
My wife put his own Christmas tree in his room. It’s covered with shiny objects which he loves to steal and hide.
I do a nearly daily Facebook post and he has followers on 3 continents. Because of demand I am writing a children’s book on him to be followed by an adult version.
His name is Roscoe and he’s a male Northern Cardinal.
