The cowbirds are hunched,
Plotting to lay eggs in some
Other songbirds’ nest.
Woodthrush nest with cowbird egg. (Wikimedia Commons)
Feature image: Brown-headed cowbird pair on feeder (Wikimedia Commons)
Cowbirds
Eilene Lyon
Author, Speaker, Family Historian
Eilene Lyon 
Talk about lazy parenting! Love this, Eilene.
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Once I watched a yellow warbler feeding a huge cowbird chick in its nest. I think when they choose such a small bird to target, the cowbird is the only one to successfully fledge.
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Wow. That must have been a sight!
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Really! Feeding a chick much larger than the adult that’s stuck with it has got to be an awful chore.
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Birds are so interesting. I just found out that wrens kill other birds’ eggs. One took over the Chickadee’s nest in our garden.
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Yes, they are very aggressive at defending their territory that way.
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I did not know that!
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I have to say, those two cowbirds do look like they’re up to no good.
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