That is it. Thank you very much. I am going to pull it. I will go ahead and store the leaves to possibly use as a spinach substitute as many sites are suggesting.

Thanks, Joanne! With that name we were able to do some more searching, for those interested... it is also known as "pale swallow-wort". www.swallow-wort.com Karl and Cherisse

Pyrrhuloxia came up in our online search, but according to the info, we are not anywhere near its range and the markings of our bird are not quite right. The patches on the wings are almost orange. A leucistic Cardinal is a possibility, although the tail seems a little long for a cardinal. There are probably a lot of variations on the markings of these, so that could be it. It was still frantically fluttering around the barn this morning when we opened it up. Hopefully the bird will make its way out today. Thanks for the ideas!

So not sure if these are friend or foe, but there was a whole hoard of them camped out under the leaf of a bell pepper, anyone have any suggestions on what they could be? There appeared to be one large black spider and then these black and tan-ish bugs. Thanks in advance