Are these Cowbirds?

[jmcquown]

They showed up yesterday along with a whole lot of other birds on my
patio after I scattered some mixed seed:

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I suspect they are those insidious birds that take over others' nests,
lay their eggs and then leave. Not sure what I can do about that.

Jill

[super70s]

Post by jmcquown
They showed up yesterday along with a whole lot of other birds on my
https://i.postimg.cc/d1BNhJb5/cowbirds.jpg
I suspect they are those insidious birds that take over others' nests,
lay their eggs and then leave. Not sure what I can do about that.
Jill

Looks like cowbirds to me, my source says the males have brown heads
and the females brownish-gray so yours are probably females. Says they
walk when feeding and hold their tails higher than other blackbirds.

Where you're located it says they live in there in winter, the
southeastern US, and in the summer they live in a huge chunk in the
northern and western US. Yours must be early arrivals, lol.

[jmcquown]

Post by jmcquown
They showed up yesterday along with a whole lot of other birds on my
https://i.postimg.cc/d1BNhJb5/cowbirds.jpg
I suspect they are those insidious birds that take over others' nests,
lay their eggs and then leave.  Not sure what I can do about that.
Jill

Looks like cowbirds to me, my source says the males have brown heads and
the females brownish-gray so yours are probably females. Says they walk
when feeding and hold their tails higher than other blackbirds.
Where you're located it says they live in there in winter, the
southeastern US, and in the summer they live in a huge chunk in the
northern and western US. Yours must be early arrivals, lol.

Thanks! You can't really tell from the picture but the feathers behind
the heads were blue-black so these might be males. I did see some other
dull brown birds (didn't get a pic).

It's getting colder up the northern coast so I'm not surprised to see
some early migrations.

Jill