Sentences with phrase «of grackles»

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.

Not exact matches

When you see these birds, you assume they'd be as common as crows, or the grackles here in central Texas, because they seem so adaptable, especially to different kinds of food, and interested in novel objects and trying to figure out how they can make use of them.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.