Oh, no! Not cardinals! You need to have a serious talk with those cats. :-)
Seriously, my cardinals are so shy. I don't think they'd be very easy at all to
catch. Your cardinals are either much tamer than ours, or your cats are
excellent hunters.

Sherry

Doesn't everyone???

On a slightly more serious note, my three rarely go for birds, small rodents
being the favoured prey.

Cheers, helen s

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My least favorite is live baby birds served as breakfast in bed.  When I'm
still sound asleep.  Current cat has a "soft mouth".  Likes to catch but
seldom injures of kills anything.  Which makes them really hard to catch and
release once they are inside and loose.

Jo

Feathers, lizard (and still twitching tails), rats (dead and alive),
squirrels, frogs & toads, rabbits, you name it, they catch it and bring it
home to Daddy ;-)

I was once surprised by a bathtub full of breast-feathers!  I've no idea
what happened to the rest of the bird (although I can guess), but there
had been nothing elsewhere in the house to prepare me for them.

When Smudge was about a year old and I lived in my previous apartment,
this happened once. The apartment had a sliding glass door in the living
room that opened onto a balcony, and I usually kept it open when I was
home so Smudge could hang out on the balcony, and come and go as she
pleased.

One morning I got up very early to use the bathroom, and on the way back
to bed, I opened the sliding door for Smudge. I then went back to bed,
closing the bedroom door. A few hours later I got up to find bird feathers
on the floor of every room in the apartment (except my bedroom - but how
on earth did I sleep through that??).

There wasn't much else of the bird to be found. I did find one foot,
and a couple of globules of something bloody, but that's it. She must've
eaten everything else. What a vacuuming job that was!

It's unusual for me to experience this because my cats are mostly
indoor-only. Smudge now goes out on a leash, because in this apartment
I don't have a closed-in balcony. But she can't bring in prey because I
see her at the door before I open it, and if she ever had something
unsavory in her mouth, I wouldn't let her in! I have found an occasional
dead bird on the stairs where she hangs out, though, and I'm amazed that
she can pull it off, since she's restricted by a leash. I think she's
probably a great hunter - and I've really cramped her style!

Joyce