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The birds?

jon f mn

jon f mn

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This is what was in the yard this morning when I got up. I've seen this movie, think I'll stay inside today!


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I used to work 2nd shift in west side of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. About once a year, a flock of birds would come and just set up camp-they would be walking around the lot next door and our lot. They perched on the eaves of the buildings, mostly just setting there-almost no sound. They were black birds(ravens,crows?)-but it was very earie and creepy. Usually this was summertime around 9-10 pm. Always creeped me out. Mark.
 
If that's a squirrel deflector device, good idea, but I battled squirrels at my feeder for years. Finally gave up, I've seen them leap 5' vertically straight up, or leap over 5' horizontally to grab onto the feeder, hang on, and pivot and lift themselves up.
 
They work good for keeping squirrels off the feeders. Don't help much for bears tho.
 
Got a grain crop approaching harvest? Some years they are like locusts in corn but they mostly pick off the small kernels exposed at the tips of the ears and, of course, anything the deer, raccoons,... woodchucks, squirrels...mice, turkeys...etc, have ripped open and left on the ground.
 
I was working up in the woods Tuesday afternoon. I shut off the wood splitter to take a break and while setting there I herd a rustling noise over to the side of me. I looked over and there had to have been hundreds of those blackbirds flying in the tree tops and landing on the ground. I tried to get a pic. but the birds didn't show up well with all the foliage. You can see a few in the roadway. The flock seamed to be slowly moving to the east, maybe foraging on bugs and tent caterpillars that are invading the woods.------Loren
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In the 1st photo, precisely at 3:00 o'clock, red winged blackbird ? Are these Grackle's or Starlings ?

Red winged blackbirds tend to flock with Grackles when I see them here and the red winged blackbirds tend to flock and or leave the earliest. In a few weeks you may not see or hear any of them in this area. Bird sounds in the morning will also be much less, that time of year. Red winged blackbirds are the 1st to arrive in spring, sometimes February.

In the 70's the starlings would be flocking mid-late August, and you knew summer was closing, it's like October when they gather up now.
 
Hard to tell from the pics if they are grackles or starlings. Grackles have a distinct tail. Starlings have a stubby tail. Grackles are shiny while starlings are rather dull.
 
Too funny!

Yeppers, after seeing that movie as a kid... I too, was kind of terrified to see birds flocking together. LOL!
 
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