A friend just called me and said he and his wife, both experienced birders, witnessed this afternoon, a grackle take a live house sparrow the same way a Cooper's hawk would or at least on the wing.  He said a while later, the bird was back trying again.  Do grackles feed birds to their young in the nest or fledglings.

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