If you are anywhere near the central Texas area, those grackles are the noisy and obnoxious black birds.Grackles, from www.schmoker.org:
Click any of the smaller images above for a LARGER picture.
I don't have to click on any picture to see a larger version of those obnoxious birds. < /sarcasm>
I see them on a daily basis. If I lived in an unincorporated area, I'd use them for target practice.