Bird love.

This morning those two little bird, a female and a male Cardinal, warmed up my heart and showed me that, indeed, beauty is all over in this world. I am talking about beauty of the heart. As usual this morning I dropped some seeds and peanuts by the Stump. Usually I go back inside, but the morning was so nice that I decided to stay on the patio and savored my morning cup of coffee. The presence of a large creature close by do not seems to concern the squirrels and chipmunks. However, they must have been occupied somewhere else. This couple of Cardinals flew in carefully, from safe branch to safe branch then landed in one, in their estimation, properly out of my reach. It was obvious that the little pile of seeds was their pole of interest. Finally, carefully the male flew in and landed close to the treasure. I assumed that he would partake and enjoy, letting the female miss the bounty by lack of courage. Instead the male picked one seed then flew to the branch next to the female and gently, oh so gently deposited the seed in the female beak, flew back in, picked up another seed and repeated his caring action and after a few more repetitions finally started feeding himself. Finally, the female emboldened herself and flew in closer once that the safety of the situation became a little more obvious. You will never know how badly I wanted, then, to be able to hug those two little birds!