Baby Cardie is Alive!

I suppose it could be any baby cardinal, but we like to think it's ours, the one from the back porch who so mysteriously was not ever seen at the nest. But now he or she and Mr Cardie are flying around, sitting at the feeder together, Dad tenderly feeding him/her sunflower seeds, looking out for him/her, protecting him/her from the scrub jays and Zenaida doves and house finches. We're rather pleased that our weeks of aural agony when Mr Loud was imprisoned in the house were not for naught after all.