I'll Suffer Ye A Little While Longer

Today the weary warrior returned home to find this handsome specimen gorging at the front yard platform feeder. Yup. Brown Headed Cowbird. We birder types are trained to dislike them: they being brood parasites especially of neotropical migrants. Yet, at an instinctive level, we find them to be striking creatures with the most liquid call note. It's something of a fight within me to condemn them. Even the brood parasitism is in their nature, a behavior widened only because we opened so much farmland in days of yore. So I avoided chasing him off. I didn't begrudge him a free meal. Maybe I won't even see him again. But buddy...I'll suffer ye a little longer if you pick on species who can handle you in a fair fight. Okay?