Female Cowbird eating – Birding in Dallas

I captured this female cowbird eating bird seed at Spring Creek Nature Preserve last week. Captured with Canon 7D and Canon 400mm 5.6 L sitting on my Induro CT314 Tripod.

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Karl

Nice pic! I’ve been getting alot of Brown Headed Cowbirds around lately. Many more than last year. Just can’t seem to bring myself to like these guys! Seen a few of their young with ‘other’ birds raising them!
- http://ericbrown.com Eric D. Brown
  
  Thanks Karl!
  
  The cowbirds are starting to show back up here too. I’m not a big fan of them (there are just so many of them here) but occasionally they can be sort of cute

Danny

I think he’s cute. Looks like a sparrow to me. Is it the blue beak that distinguishes the bird?
- http://ericbrown.com Eric D. Brown
  
  Definitely a female cowbird. The female cowbird is brown and usually a bit bigger than a sparrow (as this one was). Thanks!