It's a Grackle!

This guy was outside on the tree this afternoon. I looked it up and discovered it is a Grackle. Common Grackles are blackbirds that look like they've been slightly stretched. They're taller and longer tailed than a typical blackbird, with a longer, more tapered bill and glossy-iridescent bodies. Grackles walk around lawns and fields on their long legs or gather in noisy groups high in trees, typically evergreens. They eat many crops (notably corn) and nearly anything else as well, including garbage. In flight their long tails trail behind them, sometimes folded down the middle into a shallow V shape. There were a lot of these around today. They are smaller the the black crows that are usually all over the area. Their sounds could be heard all over, too.

Today was cloudy and mild and later turned to rain. It is raw out there now, but I got some time outside before the rain started falling. I had visitors two days in a row. That's always fun and unexpected.