[HighWheeler]

These are most likely to be Starlings and not Blackbirds.

Starling

Blackbird

Look up "murmuration" on You Tube, it's incredible

[deport]

A dead bird lies on Skylark Street in Beebe, Ark. on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2011. The Arkansas Game
and Fish Commission said Saturday more than 1,000 dead black birds fell from the sky in Beebe.
The agency said its enforcement officers began receiving reports about the dead birds about
11:30 p.m. Friday. (AP Photo/The Daily Citizen, Warren Watkins)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Oooohhh...close.
I've been a birder since waayyy back when. What you have pictured there is definitely a Blackbird (note the orange/yellow beak and legs) and a Red Winged Blackbird (not a Red Wing Starling which is a completely different bird)....normally a marsh in habitant.

Below is a Starling...sometimes referred to as a Grackle or a Brewer's Blackbird. Note the black beak, black legs and the more iridescent plummage and a longer tail on a narrower body.

But, everyone has their own opinions and references on this subject. I've seen threads go on for many days on FR on what is a Blackbird and what's a Starling.

[Rebelbase]

“Look up “murmuration” on You Tube, it’s incredible “

Thanks for the word for the day. I saw on about 30 years ago looking down on a 100 acre cornfield in the winter. The birds started landing at one end of the field and proceeded to cover the entire area. By the time the last birds landed the first birds took off again and it looked like a giant black blanket flying away.

[lonevoice]

Look up "murmuration" on You Tube, it's incredible

Wow, I had never heard of that before so I did look it up on youtube as you suggested. Here's a good one: Starlings On Otmoor. That is absolutely breathtaking.

[TASMANIANRED]

It’s no loss if they were starlings.

[mojitojoe]

Wow, that is really amazing. They remind me of schools of bait fish in the ocean. It’s fun to be down on the bottom and observe the fish above. It looks similar to the birds.