[EBB Sightings] Junco brings wrong baby to patio

Perhaps not-so-coincidentally, on Saturday I saw a junco feeding a
juvenile cowbird at Lawrence Livermore Lab. This may have been my first
juvenile of the season (can't remember if I saw one already at home).

Jaan Lepson
Livermore


On Mon, June 15, 2009 7:10 pm, Hugh and Rosita Harvey wrote:
> Having just returned from 8 days at Yuba Pass, we were finishing the
> unpacking of our car when Rosita said there was a Junco in the Japanese
> Maple in our patio.  They have been coming on and off for a number of
> weeks, sometimes one, sometimes two, but they have always fed off the
> cement.
> The Junco flew to the seed feeder and started taking seeds from the tray
> at the bottom of the plastic tube.  Meanwhile, a chick flew and landed on
> another steel hanger.  The adult started feeding the chick, and we
> realized it was a fledgling Brown-headed Cowbird.  Darn.
> Hugh B. Harvey
> Walnut Creek
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Jaan Lepson

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