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Love those Reconyx!

I've been through several different brands of cameras over the years. It is the only one that has been trouble free "so far".

Yup I have 2 wished I had 10 more

Where's Alfred Hitchcock?





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Holy Smokes is that normal or a migration number?

Dang...

I'm not familiar with the bird in the picture, what are they?

My guess would be Starlings, we have large migrating flocks of them that show up at a big dairy farm down the road. The owner calls me when they pass through, they hate #8 shot and tend to head south when they find they are not welcome there. In addition to eating his feed they crap in the feed and all over the place, I'm always happy to help out.

The birds pictured are Common Grackles. They are unique in that they have a white eye. They are also have the ability to empty a feeder faster than any other bird i've ever seen. Here in Northern Minnesota they appear in flocks of several hundred to several thousand during the fall migration.

Those aren't starlings. I believe they are grackles. They have an iridescent head that looks bluish in the pictures. Where I grew up in South Dakota we had common grackles. There are also great-tailed grackles and boat-tailed grackles in the southern parts of the country but I don't know how to tell them apart.

Oops, looks like Mesabikid beat me to the punch.

Taste like Chicken.

They are smaller than the grackles that hang around all the fast food places in town. A bird watcher said they were starlings. They come once a year and stay no longer than 2-3 minutes.

The tails look too long and the coloration doesn't look right for starlings, at least not the ones I'm familiar with. I vote for boat tail grackles.

I sure wouldn't argue with you. Thank God they ate and left. Happens once a year and they haul A$$ until next year.

Beak and eyes are not right for Starlings... when starlings show up my wife heads for the 3 inch O/U and grabs a box of duck loads. LOL. She HATES them.

We get huge flocks of Brewe'rs Blackbirds around here in the winter. Sometimes they will mix with grackles too.


https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Brewers_Blackbird/id#

A bird to be seen in the full sun, the male Brewer’s Blackbird is a glossy, almost liquid combination of black, midnight blue, and metallic green. Females are a staid brown, without the male’s bright eye or the female Red-winged Blackbird’s streaks. Common in towns and open habitats of much of the West, you’ll see these long-legged, ground-foraging birds on sidewalks and city parks as well as chuckling in flocks atop shrubs, trees, and reeds. And at your deer feeder.

Tan-er-RITE!

I did not look at the photo closely until today. It appears that all of them have a bluish neck and head. I don't see any that are different in color. Maybe the females of this breed are the same color. We do have Grackles or whatever that hang around fast food places in the nearest town, but they are different. As I mentioned, these must be migratory as after being here for a few minutes each year and then they are off until next year.

I’m glad we don’t have them here!

them fuggers will pull out a corn sprout to get the kernel too. they'll walk right down the row doing it. my dad hated those things and i used to sit up in my bedroom window with the old crosman 160 playing sniper in the garden.

I had thousands of them over my goose spread and in a moment of boredom I shot randomly up in the sky and six dropped all around me. Felt guilty and that I should bake them in a pie or something but they were flaring the geese.

Sounds fun to me!

Jeeetem? That's Texan for did you eat them?

I would now as I have had luscious song bird catchatorie and other odd dishes from unlikely sources.

In the rice fields south of here they have to set up CO2 canons to keep those Btards away.

Gadfry
And I thought I had grackle issues in the past.

Grackles, natures synonym to learoy, djs, northman, nebassman....

I would set the timer to 30 min before dark.

Pick up some yellow acorns the next time they come on sale. They work a little better.

Looks like someone needs a cat.

I wonder how many of them ole Tom Knapp, may he RIP, could have got with that 9 shot Mosseberg pump 12 ga he used to shoot his exhibitions with?

We used to have several feral cats around the feeder hunting, but they have mostly disappeared.
John Knapp told me that he was a much better shot than brother Tom.

I see chicken pot pie.

Common Grackles.

Good Lord! Thats funny!!.....Hb

Call Tom Knapp and Benelli.

From a life long birder - they appear to be Common Grackles.

Edit: I didn't know that Tom Knapp died, I remember seeing his exhibition when I was a kid.

Tom Knapp did a lot for the Benelli brand. He could shoot a 22 rifle also.

A lot of folks eat those birds. You must not have many Cajuns or Black people around.

Best thing to happen to us was some of the coonA$$es that moved in after Katrina. Food around here improved. Tom Knapp has passed away. John lives on Horse Thief Creek out of Roundup, Montana.

Great picture. It does look like a target rich environment however for a kid with a pellet gun. Mom wanted a cat, so to make the best of the situation we never bought that little varmint any cat food because my .20 Sheridan and I kept her fed with breast of blackbird every day. Visiting conservationists to the house liked seeing the bird feeder outside my bedroom window. Little did they know.

Guess what! Just checked my game camera and they came back again!