Each year about this time, the mornings are often gray, and showers come almost every day. But also, about this time, a bit of color flashes past my window on a fairly regular basis.A pair of cardinals (members of the finch family) show up about this time each fall and seem to take up residence in a tree of the house next door. Then they spend a lot of time flitting back and forth between the houses, foraging for tasty tidbits and singing their cheerful songs.
I know cardinals aren't supposed to be migratory, and I don't have a clue where they spend the rest of the year, but this pair sure know how to brighten a gray autumn day in otherwise sunny Florida.
