1:00 AM – More video of the Cowbird. Supposedly the brown feathers on Crows can be caused by molting. But images of actual Molting Crows don’t look a lot like this one, so in spite of size, it must be a Brown-headed Cowbird. (By the way, there was a punk rock band from the 80’s called the Molting Crows.)

We’ve got lots of these little guys. They run up and down the rail, and hang from the bedroom window panes. Here’s one in slow motion racing through the bird seed: