Grackles

Posted on April 11, 2008
Filed Under Birds, River Notes |

Huge mixed flock of common grackles, redwing blackbirds, and starlings in the still-bare maples today. Rain & sleet this morning, giving way to steady rain out of a black sky.

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2 Responses to “Grackles”

  1. edward mycue on April 16th, 2008 7:23 pm

    did you ever read bernd heinrich’s MIND OF THE RAVEN? (in pbk since 1999. the subtitle is “investigations and adventures with wolf-birds? the current pbk a harper perennial has in the back ‘a raven update’ (of 9pp)the last paragraph of which is personal and fine in the way you write. ed

  2. jd on April 17th, 2008 10:42 am

    I love that book. You could say it is what restarted a childhood interest in birds about a decade ago.