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  • They continue to be amazed by birds that many a birder would shrug off — for instance, the large flock of Grackles who were taking a breather in the grass beside the Pelham Bay lagoon.

    Birding on the City's Far Edge Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010

  • Grackles look purple in some kinds of lighting and jet black in others.

    Independence Day bouquet - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • Add in a couple of Meadowlarks and Grackles and you had almost everything you could want from the Prairie.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Dafydd 2009

  • Add in a couple of Meadowlarks and Grackles and you had almost everything you could want from the Prairie.

    A birding trip Dafydd 2009

  • Grackles, starlings, sparrows flitting about the decimated brush.

    Novel Excerpt: World Fantasy | Goblin Mercantile Exchange 2007

  • And someone else has a headstart in the Grackles department.

    This Blog Is Your Blog, Redux Slimbolala 2005

  • They were kept company by Red-winged Blackbirds (lots of these), Starlings, Grackles, an Eastern Kingbird and a brilliantly orange Northern "Baltimore" Oriole.

    trinityboy Diary Entry trinityboy 2005

  • Grackles and blue jays can contort themselves enough to get some seeds, even though they're larger.

    Pitiful sight jhetley 2005

  • The reverie was soon broken by the awful squaking of a small group of Common Grackles, maybe 4 or 5 of them, assembled overhead in the Norway Maples.

    Archive 2002-05-01 John L. Trapp 2002

  • The reverie was soon broken by the awful squaking of a small group of Common Grackles, maybe 4 or 5 of them, assembled overhead in the Norway Maples.

    BIRDS ETCETERA—Birds, Birding, Birders, and Birdwatching John L. Trapp 2002

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