Too late for the Great Backyard Birding weekend or the blitz, I had 1 RUSTY BLACKBIRD in my yard this morning.  It had a yellow eye, and had a shorter tail than the 3 Common Grackles it was associating with.  Not as iridescent as the grackles, it was definitely not a starling.

~Kathi Hutton
Clermont County, SW OH

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