Wow , that would be a little scary!
   I shoveled a little patch in the snow we got  to put down some
seed about half an hour ago
and have seen Grackles for the first time this year, more than ever
before but I'm talking say 20 not hundreds:)
a couple of RWW, lots of Starlings which had been dissapating with
the better weather , a few Cow Birds which I had seen on and off,
all my regulars - but did pick up a newt yard bird - 2 Crows hanging
about.
Something - a Flicker? I think has been Ha Ha Haing quite loudly
pretty regularly for the last couple of days and again this morning.
  I never got an Amer Tree Sparrow this winter, maybe wrong sort of
habitat?

Mary, Fairborn, Greene County

On Mar 8, 2008, at 7:26 AM, Margaret Bowman wrote:

> 7:26 a.m.:  About 15 minutes ago a flock of over 1000 blackbirds -
> redwings,
> common grackles, and cowbirds, descended upon my back yard and
> cleaned out 5
> black oil sunflower feeders and three suet feeders in a matter of
> minutes.
> The only thing they didn't plunder was the thistle seed sock.  It
> was scary!
> Keep in mind my yard is only 40 feet wide and about 100 feet deep,
> so it's a
> very small yard, with one large sugar maple at the back and a few
> bushes and
> shrubs planted to attract birds and butterflies.  The forsythia
> bush was
> weighted down almost to the ground.  The maple tree was black with
> birds,
> and the utility lines into the house were sagging.
>
>
>
> I can assure you that in the five years I've lived here, I've never
> seen
> anything even remotely like it, and now I know where Alfred
> Hitchcock got
> his inspiration.
>
>
>
> This ought to be an interesting birding day, to say the least.
>
>
>
> Margaret Bowman
>
> Licking Co., OH
>
>
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