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Amelia's avatar

I love grackles very much because they walk like mob bosses and they're always up to something. On the other hand, my mother-in-law finds them very annoying because, like many birds, their babies poop in a little....bag? And then they bring the bag to her cute garden pond? I guess this is a thing a lot of birds do but grackles REALLY love to bring their poop sacs to your pool, or birdbath, or small water feature, or very shiny freshly waxed car that from above is so shiny it looks like water.

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Virginia S. O'Possum's avatar

My grackle story: When I first moved into this apartment, grackles had destroyed the outer plastic grille on the bathroom fan vent and moved in above the dropped ceiling. I could hear them. I had the bathroom redone as soon as I could for other reasons (at some point in its history someone had removed the support beams under the bathtub, such that it was resting on the lath and plaster of the ceiling below, and nothing else.) I would confer with the contractor each day before I went to work. The first day, I remarked, "There are birds living above the ceiling." I could see him registering it as one of the crazy things clients say. The next morning, however, he exclaimed in surprise, "There were _birds_ in there!!!" Yes, yes there were.

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