Subject: [Tweeters] Parasitism of Dark-eyed Juncos, Rich Smith in Issaquah,
Date: May 28 12:12:42 2006
From: Richard Smith - richgsmith at earthlink.net


Dark-eyed juncos have a nest with four eggs. One egg was sitting on
the edge of the nest. One of the eggs in the nest was obviously a
Brown-headed cowbird egg. I removed it and placed the egg from the
edge back in the nest. From what I've read, parasitism of juncos by
brown-headed cowbirds is supposed to be rare. Anyone have experience
with this? Rich