Foraging Cardinals...

We had a couple of visitors to our corner compost pile recently. Two northern cardinals and a little house sparrow were foraging for seeds from our old sunflowers - that we had removed from the front of our property. It was clear that the one cardinal (with the moulting plumage) was a juvenile, since the adult male was feeding it from time to time. :)

The house sparrow looks expectantly at the two cardinals. :)