Why haven't the birds flown south for winter this year?

[PieAreSquared]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobbing_behaviour

 

[MacGyver1968]

grackles... are cool. I was living in the corn fields and thousands of grackles would come by, spring and fall. what a sight and talk about chatter. Then they would shut up and take off. wow.

Heck, they would take on hawks too... gang up on them.. wild thing to watch

I agree..many mornings I would take my morning coffee at the window, just to see all the drama going on.

I think grackles are a variety of raven..and are extremely intelligent. They're also bullies. It was fun to watch them interact with the other species...I love the way they walk too...kinda like "walk like an Egyptian".

 

[PieAreSquared]

wild to see the pack take off and if the wind was right. there would be this pattern in their flight, like a wingtip vortices.. with no wing.. so many times I wish i had the camera to catch it.. you'd dig it.

It's like the more you observe nature and have a open mind, you can see that we learned most everything we know from the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees.

Mobbing is a real good example.. I feel