Unidentified orange "blob" on broccoli

After several days of rain and cool temperatures, I find several rusty-orange "blobs" on the leaves of my cabbage and broccoli plants. Any idea if this looks like eggs or a fungus?
Thanks

looks like Leaf rust fungi to me, if you have any anti fungal plant treatments use it on them ASAP--or even peroxide or vinegar, since it it just a blob or two, you may can nip it in the bud

They look like eggs to me or possibly a bird passed by and dropped a partially eaten berry (something splattered from above)? Is it all over the broccoli or just a couple of leaves on the one plant?

I think that's your old, everyday, average something that came out of either end of a bird passing overhead....

No worries...Rinse it off with a hose and keep on keepin' on...

by the way, i am a bit envious that you are having a successful broccoli crop, lol, but then again you are in TX also, mine all bit the dust once we had the teens and single digits during the night times, and they werent even close to forming heads yet

Jmc1987,
Were your plants covered over from the cold weather? I've had 4 mil contractor's plastic over PVC hoops since the weather changed in mid-November. Mostly protection against our blustery Texas wind, not so much against the cold, cause they can handle it down to the 30°s with the cover (for a couple hours overnight -- anything more like, 2-3 days in a row, would take more protection).

Good days above 50° and the covers were pulled back so heat wouldn't build up underneath.

I have a jungle of cauliflower plants that I will be taking down tomorrow. I planted too late to make proper heads, but, I'll have all the greens I want to make green smoothies, LOL!

I have more collards and beets waiting to be transplanted in place of the cauliflowers. And new turnips and carrots, too.

Linda

i truthfully dont remember if i covered or not, lol. but i also think it was the night that the temps hit 6F that took out the few that i had planted, they were planted pretty close behind the house--sheltered from almost all winds.

I'm wondering how the orange "blobs" are doing....since they were found on several leaves I'm still thinking leaf rust. I don't see how a bird could hit that many areas at once. Maybe eggs...I sure would hate for them to be fungi, spraying them with water will only make the situation much worse. I google leaf rust but it's hard to compare pics to pics, without seeing them.

Lisa,
When I looked at the bottom most part of the blob "element," I noticed that piece of berry mixed in. That's what made me think it came OUT of a bird....

I agree but when I googled leaf rust it looks a lot the same and the original poster said it was on several leaves. I'm not saying it's not but if it is spraying it off will scatter spores everywhere. If that was the only "spot" then Id definately say bird but the poster said several spots, which seems unlikely for a bird. IMO.

Ok. I see the wisdom of your theory. Good deal!

Sorry for the delay in getting back to everyone....turns out the orange "blob" came from a flock of cedar waxwing birds that were visiting the neighborhood. I saw the birds the afternoon before I noticed the "blobs"....a couple of days later I came across the same orange "blobs" on some rocks in my yard (they were located under another tree)!

When a bird turns in to a flock of birds that explains the many blobs. Good call.