I was sitting in the den the other night in front of the PC, as I often am, when I heard what very much sounded like someone drumming their fingernails on the window.  I looked outside and no one was there.  I sat back down at my desk and heard the same sound coming from the living room across the hall. I got up and looked out that window and again saw nothing.  Soon, I heard it from the dining room window on the other end of the house.  (These are all consecutive windows going around the house in order, by the way.)

I figured someone was screwing around with me, so quietly crept back to the dining room window where the sound was still being made. I peaked through the wood blinds in time to see "something" disappear.  I still wasn't quite sure what it was, but I was guessing it was now an insect or bird since it was too small to be human.

Later on, the sound came from the den again and this time I saw the source.  It was a small yellow bird that, for no reason I can figure, flies up to the window, latches on, and pecks at it with his beak rapidly.  If anyone approaches, he flies off.  Otherwise he stays and pecks a while.  Here's the little prankster's face:

Ornery Yellow Bird

As you might imagine, this has caught the attention of our two cats, who would very much like for us to open the window and let the little fellow inside where they could "play" with him.  (And given that his pecking woke me up this morning, I'm REALLY tempted to help him inside for them.  My stepdaughter is also, as the bird did the same thing to her today, too.)  Colby, for example, has made a dive at the glass several times now to get to the bird.  Here he is just before one of those attempts:

Interested Orange Cat

And here he is just after the bird has flown off:

Very, very interested cat!

He REALLY wants to play with that bird.  If I can get any good cat/bird interaction video I'll post it later.