The COMMON GRACKLE was an easy find this morning (26 April 2007),
also at the same intersection was a calling male YELLOW-HEADED
BLACKBIRD. BREWERS and RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS rounded out the Icterid
list.

Russell
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Sequim WA 98382
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On Apr 25, 2007, at 10:06 PM, Bob and Barb Boekelheide wrote:

> Hello, Tweeters,
>
> The male Common Grackle found by Steve Mlodinow and Brad Waggoner
> at Dungeness on 4/22 was still there this evening, 4/25. I first
> found it walking in the road with Brewer's Blackbirds near the
> intersection of Marine Drive and Oysterhouse Road (which is the
> road to Dungeness Landing Park, the first public access to
> Dungeness Bay west of the Dungeness River mouth). It then flew up
> onto the lawn of the first house east of that intersection, 536
> Twin View Drive, and nonchalantly strolled through the grass with
> the blackbirds.
>
> The poor grackle made a pass at a female Brewer's, strutting up to
> her and gave her a little cluck, but she'd have none of it.
>
> Bob Boekelheide
> Sequim
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