I love grackles for being such weird and noisy and deceptively sparkly birds. The icterids (aka blackbirds) are an amazing family in general, but grackles always seem to bring that extra...something.
My favorite grackle memory is from when my spouse and I went to San Antonio several years ago for Rites of Darkness III,…
I love grackles for being such weird and noisy and deceptively sparkly birds. The icterids (aka blackbirds) are an amazing family in general, but grackles always seem to bring that extra...something.
My favorite grackle memory is from when my spouse and I went to San Antonio several years ago for Rites of Darkness III, a metal festival. Our hotel was a little south of downtown (I think), and there was this intersection right by it that featured hotels on every corner and telephone wires framing the square. Around dusk each day, hundreds and hundreds of great-tailed grackles would fly in and roost on the wires and hotel rooftops. You could stand in the middle of the instersection, turn in a full circle, and there would be an unbroken line of grackles in your line of sight the entire time. And they make such wild sounds! Like all the droid and blaster sounds from the original Star Wars, but sped up a little bit and happening on top of one another. A glorious cacophony!
Anyway, that greeted us every evening and I have been a big grackle fan ever since.
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I love grackles for being such weird and noisy and deceptively sparkly birds. The icterids (aka blackbirds) are an amazing family in general, but grackles always seem to bring that extra...something.
My favorite grackle memory is from when my spouse and I went to San Antonio several years ago for Rites of Darkness III, a metal festival. Our hotel was a little south of downtown (I think), and there was this intersection right by it that featured hotels on every corner and telephone wires framing the square. Around dusk each day, hundreds and hundreds of great-tailed grackles would fly in and roost on the wires and hotel rooftops. You could stand in the middle of the instersection, turn in a full circle, and there would be an unbroken line of grackles in your line of sight the entire time. And they make such wild sounds! Like all the droid and blaster sounds from the original Star Wars, but sped up a little bit and happening on top of one another. A glorious cacophony!
Anyway, that greeted us every evening and I have been a big grackle fan ever since.