Today Jake met a juvenile cardinal.
For some reason the bird was hopping like a robin rather than flying. Jake was chasing it around the yard, into bushes, and barking and howling at it. The bird would just squawk at Jake at the top of its lungs. If Jake would move away, the young bird would hop off its low perch and run underneath him and scold. Jake never tried to pick the cardinal up or shake it.
To prevent a bad outcome, I rescued the bird and moved it to higher ground. It didn't seem to like that - clenching my finger in its beak (not painful, which I'm sure would not make the bird happy), then flying back down to the ground in another part of the yard. Finally, it hopped through the fence into the neighbors yard.
Oddities of nature.
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