Grackles, Grackles Everywhere

We were reading Isabella's blog about the Invasion of Birds and it got us to thinking about Mom's drive home every evening. She says mostly there are few birds to see but, once she gets to the intersection of a major street (three lanes each way plus turn lanes) and the freeway (six lanes of freeway and six lanes of service/frontage roads), there are grackles everywhere! She decided to take her camera with her to work so she could take pictures and show us when she got home. Check this out! (Oh, click on the pictures to get the full effect ... you can see each bird.)















Almost all of the space on the wires has birds sitting on it. If you look again, you will see there are even a couple of birds sitting on top of the post!

But that wasn't all of the birds. Here is another picture.















Mom says it is like this every evening when she drives through there. After she passes this intersection, then it is back to one or two birds.

We suggested that Mom take us to work and we would bark at the birds and chase them away. She said that she probably would not do that. We would lose our voices barking at all of those birds and she thinks they are used to lots of noise if they can stand to hang around a busy intersection in Houston during rush hour.

(Our apologies for the quality of the pictures. Mom was sitting in her car at the stop light when she took the pictures so she didn't have a lot of opportunity to work with the camera.)