A Greek Cardinal?

A Greek Cardinal? I admit I don’t know much about ancient Greek plays. But I think I read or heard that they were civilized enough not to have an actor “play-die” on stage. I wonder if the Cardinal bird picked up the same tradition. Our little electronic camera takes pictures of birds at the bird feeder is like a stage. The birds push each other around, squawk at, jump at, and so on. And we watch, just like an audience. Today a bright red male Cardinal bird landed in the camera lens view and made some strange sounds and he look roughed-up. He flew out of view and replaced him was a female dull red Cardinal. She also made strange chirping nose. She left and was quickly replaced by two female Cardinas, roughed up too. Then suddenly an large angry female Cardinal jumped on center and threatened the two, they left. The big angry one was not rouged up. She stood there and fussed. It appears like a soap opera and a Greek play, something was going on off-stage out of site.