A flock of grackle birds fills nearly every limb of a tree near a field where they were feeding near Watertown, Ohio. If you ...

Two years ago my wife Julie and I were driving through Hartford on the way to visit our daughter in West Hartford. We had crossed the Connecticut River and were through the city when suddenly the sky ...

Some of the more common birds we see here in Texas are the grackles. You can hardly walk through a supermarket parking lot without seeing one of these brown or black birds peering out at you from ...

Why do Texas grackles congregate in great gregarious mobs at parking lots, parks, airports during the winter?

A black bird isn't necessarily a blackbird. It could be a crow, a grackle or a starling. Flocks of black birds are common in fields, on power lines and along roads in the fall. All these black birds ...

A big bunch of birds settled into the cottonwood trees around the house. I heard. I looked. I took them for blackbirds - until a part of the flock settled on the ground. Then I realized that the birds ...

The first half of October is filled with autumnal happenings. Even with the warm weather, as we experienced this year, these changes still continue. In many ways, nature is preparing for the coming ...

Each year at about the middle of October, we experience the leaf-drop. The foliage that has been on the tree branches since mid-May finally responds to the weakening abscission layers on their ...

Frisco has made national headlines again, and this time you can thank the birds. North Texan Kenna Mitchell recently posted a video of hundreds, if not thousands, of grackles hovering over a parking ...