Sentences with word «grackle»

Pelicans, Great Tailed Grackles, Double Crested Cormorants, Blue Herons — so many wonderful and beautiful species surround us you may even have to compete with some for the best spot by the pool!

She bought her maple, junked the chain - link fence, and tried to start a lawn; our crabby flock of grackles grew too fat on seed to quarrel.

They are nondescript but industrious sparrows and ravenous small grackles, jet black with brilliant yellow eyes.

Referencing both a human figure and «the spirit of a bird,» as the artist says, this dark, abstracted form depicts a bird in the corvid family, which includes grackles, crows, and ravens, common in large cities around the world.

Common grackles, cardinals, and towhees are other examples of ground - feeding birds.

When I mow my lawn there will be 15 grackles on it within 10 minutes.

«In urban and suburban settings grackles are the most likely culprits, although jays, magpies, and crows will decapitate small birds, too.

Grappling Grackles Outside the window in front of my desk, I have a stand with three different feeders — one with black oil sunflower seeds, another with thistle, and the last with suet.

Clearly warmer weather, a beachfront view, and being able to enjoy a free breakfast every morning has its perks... and not without the occasional entertainment of iguanas fighting over ripe fruit, grackles jumping from table to table trying to get their own free breakfast, and listening to the circus of monkeys in the trees above.

Nuisance - Proof Feeders I am a long - time, diehard fan of caged bird feeders because they, along with a baffle, keep out squirrels, raccoons and unwanted birds like grackles and common blackbirds.

More than 60 species of birds have been identified on the Turneffe Atoll with the following seen commonly: snowy egret, little blue heron, great blue heron, tricolored heron, yellow - crowned night heron, clapper rail, mangrove swallow, brown pelican, magnificent frigatebird, double - crested cormorant, osprey, mangrove warbler, great tailed grackle, golden fronted woodpecker, tropical mockingbird, cinnamon hummingbird, green breasted mango, hooded oriole, white crowned pigeon and royal tern.

This month, to my chagrin, I saw a lot of grackles.

The Catbird looks like a small grackle.

Teams of avid birders collected observations from Toronto to Baldwin, La.: the American black duck, the red - breasted nuthatch, the common grackle, and 86 other species.

It was quite romantic and fortunately, the Sandy Lane management had thoughtfully provided netting to keep out the grackles.

Take the grackles that have moved here into central Texas in the last 30 years or something.

He spots three or four bird's nests, including a grackle's nest suspended between a loosestrife stalk and a swamp rose.

Yeah, those Grackles downtown are so annoying.

In fact, it's rather widely known that such predatory behavior is not uncommon with owls, grackles, jays, magpies, and even raccoons.

The inexpensive mixes produce a lot of waste and generate very little in bird visitation — and those that do come tend to be «undesirable ones,» like house sparrows and grackles.

Like most people that feed wild birds, I've had my fair share of «fights» with creatures I don't wish to feed, such as squirrels, chipmunks and, now, grackles.

Then the grackles discovered the suet feeder.

So far, it appears to have worked against the grackles, and the woodpeckers are already eating from the bottom.

After some research, I discovered that grackles won't hang upside down, but woodpeckers will.

I wonder if I can get that robin to chase away squirrels and grackles, too.

Local land birds are friendly and abundant: the brightly coloured red - billed cinnamon hummingbird, the chestnut - headed mangrove warbler, the mangrove vireo, black catbird, golden - fronted woodpecker, hooded oriole, tropical mockingbird, tropical kingbird, white - collared seedeater and the ubiquitous boat - tailed grackle.

It has the same blue - black plumage, but grackles have yellow eyes and walk with powerful legs and big feet.

Given the right season, you might observe a red - billed cinnamon hummingbird, the chestnut - headed mangrove warbler, the mangrove vireo, black catbird, golden - fronted woodpecker, hooded oriole, tropical mockingbird, tropical kingbird, white - collared seedeater, and the boat - tailed grackle.

It follows the story of a hawk and a grackle, each of which has either been left behind by their peers or have been alone the whole time.

One etching of a litter of border terriers, for example, started as drawings and watercolors, while another series of sketches became a lithograph immortalizing the grackles that nest in Fleming's boxwood each year and devour her sunflower seeds.