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A bird made a nest in the fern hanging from my back porch....actually it looks like two different birds' eggs. First time I checked there were just two eggs.  Went back a couple days later and there were three.  Mama bird? 
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May 16, 2016 13:40
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I'm not an ornithilogist and I'm on a tiny phone, but iirc that's what we okies call a "Cowbird", and they're little shitheels. The small eggs probably belong in that nest if there's more than one of them. The jerkbird lays its egg in another mommy's nest and then dicks off, leaving stranger mom to raise it under the impression that she just happens to have one fat, weird baby. Since it's usually bigger than the native eggies it often monopolies food and the original baby birds starve to death right under mom bird's beak 
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May 16, 2016 13:56
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Well, poo poo. What do I do?
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May 16, 2016 14:29
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Let nature take its course and post pictures of tiny cute bird babies. For science.
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May 16, 2016 23:59
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Would also be willing to bet that the bigger mottled egg is a cowbird egg, and the smaller speckled eggs (and mama) are house finches or something similar.
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May 17, 2016 04:25
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pandaid posted:Let nature take its course and post pictures of tiny cute bird babies. For science. Well, here you go.....for science. I can't believe how fast they hatched!!   Hard to tell how many are in there....I guess that's the cowbird one because it seems bigger than the other one (or maybe two) that are snuggled up behind it.
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May 17, 2016 13:28
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Freakbox posted:I'm not an ornithilogist and I'm on a tiny phone, but iirc that's what we okies call a "Cowbird", and they're little shitheels. The small eggs probably belong in that nest if there's more than one of them. The jerkbird lays its egg in another mommy's nest and then dicks off, leaving stranger mom to raise it under the impression that she just happens to have one fat, weird baby. This post is hysterical. Please keep posting and discreetly feed the other babies if they get muscles out by baby jerkbird.
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May 17, 2016 18:41
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Supposedly the chick will also eject the unhatched eggs at some instance to get the most amount of attention and food. Also if the cowbird's egg was manually removed, the female cowbird might actually come back and destroy the whole nest to increase the chance of them having a new nest with their youngs being raised.
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May 18, 2016 01:42
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What assholes. Anyway you cut it there is a cute baby bird there...needing to have pictures taken of it. And if you are inclined there is a forum full of people who will help you feed some birds if they get nest ejected. Just saying. 
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May 18, 2016 01:51
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Man, I really pissed this baby bird off by aiming my camera at it. As soon as I got close, it started squawking and opening its beak....thinks I have food for it maybe? I also have a short video...you can really hear its pissed off noises. Need to figure out how to post it. 
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May 18, 2016 13:31
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Figured out the video. One unhappy bird baby.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZhxE2bsCAw
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May 19, 2016 12:46
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Aahaaahaaa, yeah that's one hangry baby! What a cutie. Keep posting updates!!
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May 19, 2016 22:37
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