Two things I don't want in my yard.. I have baby chickadee's in one bird house and the cow birds are hovering over head and I am worried they are going to try and push those babies out, so far, they have not, I am hoping the hole to the house is too small for them to get in there. These worms are all over my columbine plants, I have never had them before, I wonder why this year. I must have taken off 40-50 of them already.
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Are those cowbirds the brown-headed ones? I don't like them because they lay their eggs in another bird's nest. Then the eggs hatch quickly and the brown-headed cowbirds grow very fast. So when the poor little bird's own eggs hatch, the b-h cowbirds push them out. Over time, they can devastate the other bird populations.
I saw a pair of them in the cow's feeding area the other day - was not happy to see them!
When I still lived in TX, I participated in a state-sponsered program that taught us how to trap them and then kill them. They were such a problem there in the areas west of Houston.
About the caterpillars - are they by any chance from a butterfly?
yes they are brown headed and kind of blue black bodies. THey make a very distinctive sound too, it's werid, like water kind of noise, once you know it, you know it's them
The worms I am not sure about but there are a lot of them and they are eating the leaves
Yarrgh! I haven't seen those worms before, hopefully I don't in my yard! I've noticed a huge increase in the cowbird population over here too, dang birds!
Between them & starlings the other poor birds have a rough time of it.
I have only 3-4 cowbirds that I can count at one time. THose worms, YUK! They are only eating at the columbine leaves. Charlie gave me some powder bug killer to put on , He said on the bag they called them potato bugs or worms I think
Maybe the cowbirds will eat the worms. We have 'em here, too (worms).
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