OT some birds

Mike(NEOhio)

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Location
Newbury, Ohio
Robins love to nest under the garage extension. We keep knocking down the nests till they give up and move on but this one wouldn't take the hint.
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Then this guy flew into the window last week. He flew off an hour later.
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We've always had eastern peewees nesting under the overhangs but finally discouraged them but this nest was built on the dryer vent. Wife pulled it off today. Looks like some stranger has stopped by. The speckled eggs are the peewee but what bird would do this. They look white in the picture but are actually kind of a tan-pink. They look like a wren egg but wrens to my knowledge don't use other birds' nests.
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Do you have any Cowbirds in your area? They are famous for putting their eggs in some other bird's nest and when their eggs hatch the newborn will probably be larger than the other hatchlings and be able to kill or starve the correct offspring.
 
The spotted eggs are cowbird eggs. And as has been said before they do use other birds nests. Cowbirds are the only parasitic birds that we know of that lays eggs and leaves the hatching and feeding to the incumbent birds.
 
"The spotted eggs are cowbird eggs"

Perhaps everyone here knows this, but the cowbird hatches sooner, is a bigger hatchling than the others in the nest, and the cowbird then pushes all the other small birds out of nest. Destroy the cowbird eggs.
 

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