Grackles!
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- CarolWallace
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- ferfer
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- sadsack0
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» CarolWallace - Grackle convention
We have one around here every summer evening, when the sky gets quite black with them just before sundown. They tend to hang around with red winged blackbirds, so we get a lot of those, too. I would change to e-cheapo bird seed - but the birds don't like it much either - and I do like the other birds that visit. So I guess I'll have to learn to live with grackles.They must be good for SOMETHING!
-- posted by CarolWallace
» MelWhite - Grackles!
I'm still looking for something that grackles are good for -- other than making a huge mess and chasing off other birds. The DO, however, eat Japanese beetle grubs... and they keep my husband entertained.I'm going to be changing the seed mix in my feeder soon to see if I can keep it down to just one or two grackles. Problem is, I love redwing blackbirds and (for all their beauty) they're really almost as bad as the grackles in many ways.
-- posted by MelWhite
» CarolWallace - Hey
Eating Japanese beetle grubs is a pretty significant contribution in my book!Do you suppose all that grackle manure benefits the soil? My wooded area must have tons of it!
-- posted by CarolWallace
» LadyB - Grackles and Blackbirds and Cow Birds, oh my!
Yeah, it's quite the group, with the red-winged blackbirds stomping around like they're the cops.I have a question, though.....anyone have a clue as to WHY the grackles keep looking STRAIGHT up into the sky all the time? It just cracks me up, they're being all busy and then they just PEER straight up like they think something is going to fall on them.....strange stuff.....
-- posted by LadyB
» ferfer - Grackles
I hope you get this message, it's been a while since you posted your message on 3/22/00. I have a terrible grackle problem. I live in the city on a triple lot surrounded by trees - ideal grackle territory I hear. There are about 100 grackles living in the evergreen trees that line my property. I have a swimming pool that we just uncovered to get ready for summer. There are a constant stream of grackles carrying their dried droppings, hatched egg shells, and dead hatchlings and swooping down over the pool they deliberately drop them in. Every day I have literally hundreds of their dropings in my pool. We have strung string and fishing line from the trees to the house over the pool, we have 2 fake owls on poles, we chase them away whenever we see them and we still cannot deter them. Our patio is so covered with their wet droppings that we cannot even walk out there.Do you, or does anyone else have any ideas of what else we can do to get rid of them. I was thinking of using a couple of scare crows.
-- posted by ferfer
» sadsack0 - Getting rid of Grackles
Hi, I have been having a huge problem with Grackles swooping over our pool. They started with just pooping in it and now they are dropping dried poop and baby birds in the pool, on the garage, over the yard!!! We can't walk out there anymore let alone use the pool. Don't know what they are doing or how to stop them. Please help.-- posted by sadsack0
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