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The brown headed cowbirds are a smaller blackbird. Their name comes from the fact they they will follow herds of cows eating the insects that swarm around the cows. They aren’t a bird that I love to see in the garden, but they arrive anyway. But they are good for photo opportunities.
They arrive in large groups and will fill the flat feeder or cover the ground under the feeders.
The female is the brownish colour. They can lay many eggs in a season, not in their own nests, but in nests of other birds.
Their beaks are almost finch shaped. The males have black bodies and brown heads with black eyes.
I’m sharing with Wild Bird Wednesday.
lots more lens friends
birds in the garden … critters in the garden … water birds
