[filbert]

I thought I was the only one who truly despised starlings. Horrible little creatures.

Now grackles...I like grackles...

[glock rocks]

My son (who lived in Houston) came to visit, and one morning he and I noticed a grackle sitting at head level about 10 feet away near the deck. I'd never seen one before. He told me that grackles in Houston are like starlings in Utah. Beautiful creature, irredescent, with fluorscent yellow Dr. Suess eyes, beak and legs.

The next week I told the guy at the bird food store I'd seen a grackle in my back yard.

You didn't see a grackle, I was told.

Yes, it was a grackle.

It wasn't a grackle. They do not fly up here.

(Okay. However, there was a grackle in my back yard.)

[askrenr]

Grackles are terrible birds, they crap in my pool.