Adult cardinals are largely vegetarian – they eat seeds, grains, and fruit – but Mrs C found a sizeable caterpillar on a stump one day and considered branching out. She pecked at it a couple of times (poor caterpillar) while Mr C looked on, and then decided it was not her kind of thing. Mr C pecked at it, too, but clearly it wasn’t his kind of thing, either, and so he and the Mrs flew off to find lunch elsewhere.
A minute later, along came a Bewick’s wren. Bewick’s wrens are decidedly not vegetarian and the caterpillar was gone.
A note from TBW:
This short was edited by Martin Bludworth, our new video production assistant and Premier Pro expert. Martin joined our team earlier this year and is working with Dan to create videos for publication.
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