[wisb] My Spark bird

From: Clark Lindo <clarklindo19@xxxxxxxxx>
To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:17:07 -0600
I grew up at Kettlegate, half way between Roe Point and Pua Kau Tuk on 
the lake South of Oshkosh.  Our dining room table faced a picture window 
with a flat square bird feeder placed on top of a large flower pot used 
during the summer.  While eating we would watch the birds feed just a 
few feet from us.  We frequently saw a pair of Cardinals feed.  That 
Spring, they nested in a fir next to the same feeder with the nest 
clearly visible from our window.  I would watch the mother take care of 
her young every day.  She knew we were watching, but never minded.  I 
frequently heard the male Cardinal sing, and while outside would try to 
whistle his call.  By the end of the summer, he would come to me.  When 
school started, I would peddle to my third grade class at Boyd school.  
I would whistle, and the Cardinal would follow me along Hwy 45 until 
reaching Hesser's Supper Club, (now gone, became a Union Hall, then tore 
down for housing) where I would turn West to Boyd School.  On my way 
home, my Cardinal would greet me at Hesser's, and I would whistle as he 
followed  me home.  This went on for the two years I went to Boyd.  I 
transferred to Campus School in the city for fifth grade on and missed 
my Cardinal, but never lost interest in birding.
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