a cloud of boat-tailed grackles descends on your yard. This is actually a very small flock. Sometimes the front yard is black with them and I have a pretty good sized front yard. It sounds like hundreds of squeaky gates when they are out there.
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You know it’s fall when
October 25, 2012
October 28, 2012 at 3:16 pm
We get the common variety here. Someone put up a Martin house one year and they had a fiesta. I saw the Robins in large groups congregating this week. Sure enough they took off just as the Junco’s came in making a hullabaloo when it was warm, trying to pick out nesting spots. The cats were on the porch salivating.
October 29, 2012 at 8:34 pm
Oddly, in SW PA we don’t get any grackles in the autumn, just spring and early summer. I have a cage I put around the tube feeder and the tray only gets safflower seed which the grackles don’t like. I really don’t mind feeding the but they are such voracious eaters!