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Grackle kills and eats adult sparrow
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05/23/22 05:37 PM
05/23/22 05:37 PM
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Posts: 5,599 Port Jervis, NY
beachcomber13
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Looked out the window in time to see a Grackle attack, kill and eat a grown sparrow. Craziest thing is that 4 Starlings dive bombed the Grackle as if the sparrow were one of their young. [img]http://[/img]
Last edited by beachcomber13; 05/23/22 05:39 PM.
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Re: Grackle kills and eats adult sparrow
[Re: beachcomber13]
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05/23/22 05:40 PM
05/23/22 05:40 PM
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Posts: 21,716 Sandhills Nebraska
Gary Benson
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Dang grackles have run off both bluebirds and purple martins for me lately, and then left. Redwing blackbirds are still here.
Life ain't supposed to be easy.
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Re: Grackle kills and eats adult sparrow
[Re: beachcomber13]
#7589624
05/23/22 07:39 PM
05/23/22 07:39 PM
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newtoga
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Bird flu killed most of the grackles off here.
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Re: Grackle kills and eats adult sparrow
[Re: newtoga]
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05/23/22 08:23 PM
05/23/22 08:23 PM
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Mark K
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Bird flu killed most of the grackles off here. When I was in Donna a couple months ago, there were millions of them.
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Re: Grackle kills and eats adult sparrow
[Re: beachcomber13]
#7589721
05/23/22 09:47 PM
05/23/22 09:47 PM
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newtoga
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Yea we had thousands last year in parking lots and on power lines. I’ve seen 5 this year.
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