Cardinal play

I got another good crop of young Cardinals this Summer.
These birds are scruffy and look kinda bad as kids.
Today several juveniles are messing around the branch area taking baths and catching bugs. Cool shade on a hot day for us all:joyous:.
Soon they will be strikingly beautiful birds.

At my place they are the last to go to bed and the first up.
Each morning they are in my window feeder at first light rasing cain and driving the cats crazy. Come Spring the males will be fighting their image in the two way glass. It is unlikely these new males will run off the big boys, but their day will come.