Hi All,
   
  I woke really early today and so had a chance to spend a little time dawdling in the yard this morning while filling feeders and drinking coffee - (little over an hour)
   
  Here's what was hopping at my feeders and surrounds down in here in south county:
   
  Fly-Overs
  Some kind of med sized black birds. Grackles? ~10-15
  Trumpeter Swans - 25
  Swallow types - 3
  Canada Goose ~10
  Yard and Environs:
  1 Blue Jay  (oddly, only one)
  2 No. Cardinal 
  2 Downy Woodpeckers
  1 White Breasted Nuthatch (who has been awol for a while now)
  2 Tufted Titmouse (there used to be 5...)
  1-2 Black Capped Chickadees 
  2 Juncoes
  2 Carolina Wrens (did you know they'll eat cat food?)
  ~ 10 Am. Robins
  2 Crows
   
  Heard But Not Seen (lots today, very frustrating)
  Grey Catbird
  Ovenbird
  White Throated Sparrow
  Red Bellied Woodpecker
   
  En Route to Work
  100 or so Canda Goose 
  Great Blue Heron
  usual sparrows, blackbirds,
   
  re the black birds - I think there's a big roost back in the Big Woods behind my neighourhood (700 acres). I've see them come out in the morning and return at evening. It might be  mixed roost. The same little gang was in my big oak yesterday morning showing off to each other - they are all black, some have yellow/lighter eyes, beaks black, some have purple-y sheen
  They were making a "conk-bloop" call (like the conk a Red WInged Blackbirds' conk-o-ree song) followed by a little bubble "bloop" sound (like the bloop sound on the end of a Brown Headed Cowbird song) while they made these calls some would spread their wings and tails...Do Grackles make that kind ofcall/"song"? I've not heard them make that sound before but am by no means a black bird expert.   If not Grackle, ID Ideas? Thanks!
   
  Cat

 
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