Are your feeders dominated by grackles? Ours are too. Common grackles are large birds, 11-13 inches long, with long beaks. Their coloring is black with a beautiful iridescent sheen of blue, purple and ...

Some of the more common birds we see here in Texas are the grackles. You can hardly walk through a supermarket parking lot without seeing one of these brown or black birds peering out at you from ...

GRAND FORKS – Danny Omdahl and I have been watching common grackles, he in Warren, Minnesota, and I on Grassy Hills Lane in Grand Forks. Probably other birders have been watching grackles, too.

Week 3 of the baby Eastern Bluebirds, and the four siblings are growing like crazy! Did you notice the signature “angry face” of the nestling that looks directly at the camera? It can’t help but make ...

Grackles have been prancing around my lawn this week showing off their iridescence as they search for grubs and other fodder. The grackles are large, black, conspicuous – and almost always unwelcome ...

When we think about signs of spring in New England, what usually comes to mind? Flocks of robins, red-winged blackbirds staking out territory in the marsh, vernal pools and peepers (they’ve been ...