Angela Rheins

White Bird in a Blizzard

I’ve been watching this for about a week and couldn’t capture a video or photo. The juvenile cowbird was being fed by both the male and female northern cardinals. They landed at my @feathersnapcam bird feeder! What a capture! Brown-headed cowbirds are brood parasites. Which means they lay their eggs in other birds nest and those birds (referred to as the “host bird”) raise the cowbird and feed it as if it was their own. This also happens with some species of cuckoo. #birds #birdwatching #birdpho