Birds in New Jersey 2014

8 July 2014. Bad house sparrow! You are not supposed to like eating at a feeder with a halo.

 

Every few days, a rock dove appears with a new colour combination.

 

Mourning dove

 

9 July 2014. Yet another rock dove colour variation

 

Friday, 18 July 2014. The two most prevalent backyard feeder eaters, grackles and house sparrows.

 

Big birds like grackles find balancing on the feeder perches an ongoing challenge.

 

Bad news for the finches, woodpeckers, and chickadees: a grackle and a house sparrow on the finch feeder.

 

In the midst of many house sparrows, a lone juvenile brown-headed cowbird. For all we know, it is eating next
to its siblings, since it was possibly raised by a house sparrow.

 

A female brown-headed cowbird starts feeding near the juvenile. They are strangers. Female cowbirds don't
raise their own young.

 

The female brown-headed cowbird might even be the mother of the juvenile, but they have never met; she laid
her egg in the nest of another bird species.

 

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