[AnnaZ]

I miss everything.

I see some pigeons on occasion downtown, but what is really freaky are these other black birds of some type. As dusk settles they come swooping by the thousands to roost in the trees. Low-fliers, loud, and kamikaze.

(Very cool is watching the herons and egrets come to roost for the night by the "lake". They're incredibly large, and beautiful when they fly, but hilariously ungainly when trying to find branches sturdy enough to hold them for the night. Beats watching the [creepy] bats.)

[pamlet]

The loud birds are probably grackles... I don't know much about them - other than I sort of like driving in town in San Antonio and hearing them on a pleasant evening... laugh.. I know they're a pain in the neck - but it was one of the first "distinctive" things I noticed about San Antonio the first time I visited... laugh...

[Arrowhead1952]

If you are anywhere near the central Texas area, those grackles are the noisy and obnoxious black birds.