It's interesting to note that from all the Related Sightings for Grackles on Geobirds, Shelly is the only one to see large numbers as part of the Fall Migration; all other large numbers seem to be in the Spring Migration along the Atlantic Flyway.

Common? Only in YOUR area LOL

We have hugh numbers migrate through our area every year. Ours probably range in the lower hundreds though. There was once that I counted almost 100 in our back yard one spring!

Hello everyone, I CANNOT wait for spring, and I will get some newer pics up, and I will be happy to see the birds come back!

I have seen the birds that Shelly is talking about and it is phenominal! The sounds. The numbers of birds. Believe it when she says there are hundreds! We only get a small flock of maybe 20 at our feeder sometimes in the spring. They like to hog the seed from the other birds. Do deer count as being "sighted" at the feeder too? They eat more seed than the birds do.

LOL! I don't have a deer problem fortunately! :) Now squirrels are an entirely different matter!!! I must have dozens that visit my yard daily! They're not even that afraid of me anymore.....now if they'll just stay out of the feeder......:D

If I actually got some feeders up, do you think I could afford the seed for them? Don't you think, that, if there are THIS many birds touching down in the back of my house, that they already have a feed supply? They won't swamp my feeders, will they???

Don't start feeding them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When they migrate in my area they wipe out my feeder in about five minutes!!! I'm not sure, maybe if they have other food supply they might not, but all you could do is fill your feeders and see what happens. If they swamp the feeders, then just leave them empty till the migration is over. The migration here just ended. If your feeders are smaller they might not even be able to fit on them. Hope it goes well!! :) Are you still getting hugh numbers?

Every year we have the same, and we have lived here since 2002, so for 5 plus years. The first spring we were here, it was a little unnerving, to see so many birds, and it is amazing that not many people noticed them, until I pointed it out. Now, in our subdivision, we have a lot of spectators watching when the birds come back in the spring, I usually put a little note in our local paper, "birds are back on Taylor Street!" It is really quite something to see. And amazing in the fall we have even more gathering to leave then. Last year was the most ever, we had at least 700 - 1000 birds come back in the spring, and in the fall, well, we could not keep count. My husband and kids and a few friends sat on our backporch swing, and watched for 15 minutes while the birds just kept on coming in to land, from the south, and from the east, just gathering and gathering and then, swoosh, in less than 1 minute , they were ALL nesting in the woods and in another minute, all was silent.! Quite amazing. ANd then around 5 in the morning, well, it wakes you up to say the least. Can't wait to see them again!

That is so neat!!! It sounds like you are right where they join together!!! I've never been able to witness big migrations that large. That would be so wonderful to be able to watch that every year!!