Grackles?

[elleng]

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
BY WALLACE STEVENS

I Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.

II
I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.

III
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime.

[Ohiogal]

1. Wow!

Those darn grackles can clean out my bird feeders in minutes.

[TexasTowelie]

3. One thing that I didn't know until much later in life

is that grackles are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. They were a nuisance in the town where I was raised.

[elleng]

4. I didn't know that either.

Don't see them very often here.

[PoliticAverse]

5. ...

[elleng]

6. THANKS!