Skyscraper bird hunting with my cat

One of the fun things about living in a tall building is seeing all the various types of birds that circle our place. We have everything from seagulls and hawks to wild monk parakeets (I kid you not–check out more about it here) up here above the lakefront, and it’s quite a spectacle for us… and for our cats.

This past weekend, I woke up to find the cats chattering up a storm. It seems that a family of birds had taken up residence in the cables and pulleys from the facade repair on our building, and that one baby bird had decided to make himself comfortable on a cable right outside our window.

This was, as you can imagine, intensely fascinating to Mr. Dan.

Here’s a video of him going stark raving mad trying to get at that little bird. Good thing we didn’t have the window open!