<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">You can have mine and all the Red-Winged Blackbirds them. A few smaller flocks and then a big one apparently migrating through the feeders in Maple Grove by Eagle Lake.<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><br class=""><br class="">Thomas Maiello</div></div></div><div>West edge of Eagle Lake in Maple Grove</div><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 4, 2020, at 12:50 PM, Tami Vogel via Mnbird <<a href="mailto:mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" class="">mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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We have one, and just one lol, adult grackle that show up every fall and stays through the winter. It showed up a week or so ago. This will be it's fourth year w us. It brings young in the late summer and then disappears to reappear in late Nov/early December.
No sign of the young in the winter, always here alone.</div>
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It eats the suet, pecks around at the mixed seed and peanuts, and drinks from the heated baths. </div>
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I'm only assuming it's the same bird - it's not banded - but since we have one and only one in the winter and then for a couple weeks in the summer (w the exception of it's fledglings) I'm pretty sure it's the same bird.</div>
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Gorgeous day to be birding! </div>
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Regards,</div>
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Tami in Afton</div>
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<b class="">Sent:</b> Friday, December 4, 2020 12:41:35 PM<br class="">
<b class="">To:</b> Steve Kreofsky <<a href="mailto:stevek@wakconstruction.com" class="">stevek@wakconstruction.com</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Cc:</b> Mnbird (<a href="mailto:mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" class="">mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a>) <<a href="mailto:mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" class="">mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Subject:</b> Re: [Mnbird] grackle</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Check carefully for Rusty Blackbird<br class="">
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Richard Carlson<br class="">
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> I have what appears to be a female grackle at my feeders lately. Is it not unusual at this time of year?<br class="">
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