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I became obsessed with birds (yes, obsessed is the right word) in my teens. Finding bird nests to study, and later photograph, was my most pleasant and rewarding occupation. I had the time and learned the patience required to observe adult behavior when nesting. My behavior was a bit like that of a female cowbird. In those years I found no speckled cowbird eggs or hungry young.
Beginning in the 1960’s cowbirds began appearing in the southeastern states more and more frequently. Until that time they had been considered a bird of the northeast. In winter enormous flocks of cowbirds are now found throughout the south. The hoards of blackbirds made up of cowbird relatives Redwinged Blackbirds and grackles and some not related, robins, are common.
A number of years ago I purchased a book entitled Birds of Washington and Vicinity. I found the
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