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Birders

Walleye

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4. Different varieties of blackbirds hang out in these large flocks in the winter. Starlings grackles

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Sun Oct 17, 2021, 01:34 PM

Oct 2021

Redwing blackbirds, brown headed cowbirds sometimes, all together. They sure do make quite a racket when they all gather in one tree. Happens here sometimes then they swarm the yard. Some of those huge flocks you will see, I have read, have hundreds of thousands of birds. I love to watch the large flocks swarm and turn like a school of fish

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LOUD 'blackbirds' around here. [View all] elleng Oct 2021 OP

I remember the grackles in austin. Very loud! unblock Oct 2021 #1

Crows, maybe? Grackles? Or starlings? lastlib Oct 2021 #2

I can't tell, but one was close enough for a pic but missed it. elleng Oct 2021 #3

Different varieties of blackbirds hang out in these large flocks in the winter. Starlings grackles Walleye Oct 2021 #4

Ditto, I enjoy watching them too, but elleng Oct 2021 #5

I can relate. I'm sitting here trying to decide how many clothes I need to pile on to go outside Walleye Oct 2021 #6

LOLOLOL! elleng Oct 2021 #8

The darned grackles around here Diamond_Dog Oct 2021 #7