bird watch - Newburyport Daily News
26 May 2012, 2:41 am
Common grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird, American Goldfinch, House Sparrow Woodsom Farm, Amesbury: American Kestrel, Bobolink, Brown Thrasher Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island: Whip-poor-will, Bay-breasted Warbler, Hooded Warbler ...

Why won't it rain? I bent my hoe hoeing apart the hardened clay clumps in the garden - Patch
25 May 2012, 12:37 pm
It looks like it could if it doesn't stay on the ground long enough for a predator to get it. On the back deck, a baby grackle larger and fluffier than its parent cried for food and one of its parents obediently fed it, picking up bird seed and ...

A Common grackle poses for a photo - Sedalia Democrat
24 May 2012, 10:39 pm
Sedalian Karen Roberts photographed this Common grackle in her backyard. She wrote in an email, “This is a Common grackle. A blackbird’s cousin. These are a little bigger than the usual blackbird we see. They LOVE to gather in the tops of cedar trees ...

Springtime Observations of Birds and Other Animals - Patch
23 May 2012, 10:33 pm
it could be enough to lead you to conclude it was a Common grackle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_grackle.   This exercise can be done in your backyard, but it's more fun if you take a walk as a family through any one of the numerous ...

Ridgerunner Reports: Boat landings provide surprising wildlife viewing - La Crosse Tribune
23 May 2012, 10:23 am
After another boat was taken from the water, an iridescent grackle landed to check things out. When I examined the pictures I took of the bird, I noticed that the eye was almost covered by the nictitating membrane — sometimes called a “third eyelid.”

Birding in Cape May - Wall Street Journal
20 May 2012, 6:55 pm
Indeed, the ploy worked so well that one terrified grackle stained his shirt. "That's what you get," the birder explained with equanimity, "payback."

It's Day 21 and our Robins have taken flight - Era Banner
18 May 2012, 4:17 am
When we last attempted to monitor a nest the project was ended abruptly when a grackle raided the nest of newly-hatched Robins -- we're hoping this year the Robin pair are successful in sending their fledglings safely into the world. The Robin is a medium ...

7 Creatures You Don’t Want to See at Your Bird Feeder - Patch
17 May 2012, 5:01 am
grackle attack: Blackbirds, grackles and starlings are also “undesirables” for a lot of backyard bird watchers. These annoying birds attack your feeder by the flock, cleaning you out in minutes and leaving nothing for the pretty song birds. You can ...

Jerry Dumas: Kids and transcendentalists say the darndest things - Greenwich Time
16 May 2012, 4:22 pm
She once informed the rest of us as we listened to a bird high up somewhere: "That not a crow. That a grackle.") We went over to the other side of the pool. She said, "More prints. Big, smudgy ones. A mouse?" "Emilie, you know better than that. A mouse ...

Pratt: Book for men encourages deeper friendships - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
11 May 2012, 11:16 pm
Some are more welcome than others. My least favorite is the messy common grackle. Under behavior in my “Birds of Texas” book, one word, “conspicuous,” aptly describes this flying pest. This bird sings about as well as I do, with a ...