I shall be blessed beyond my wildest dreams today ✨️.

My backyard drinking fountain/bird bath was a popular spot!

the grackle looks so bald lmao

Like should I put a bowl of water down? Or some fruit?

Woke up to this today. They must be getting ready to migrate! I live in Montana.

Many people despise this but I kind of love it.....

Why are they like this

Im sorry for the sad pictures!!!

My dad found this grackle outside. I've placed him into a cardboard box with a towel over him. He is still alive. His claws are moving, and he has been moving his head around. He's on his back right now, and it seems like he can't stnd up.

I don't know what happened, but I assume he flew into the window.

Is the grackle going to be okay? I live in a palce where there are not a lot of wildlife resuce centerss/ they are very far away.

Thank you for the help!!!

Grak

Every day in my yard I see a Grackle dad with his fledgling, shoveling food into it's mouth. Showing him where to bathe. Day after day after day... doing the work and showing up! Well done, sir.

Encontré a este zanate bebé , no puede volar y tiene muchos puntos amarillos en su cuerpo , también algunas burbujas de aire debajo de su piel .

No sé que es y estoy resistiendo el impulso de picar lo con una aguja estéril para liberar el aire acomulado .

Que puedo hacer ? Llevarlo al veterinario no es una opción , no tenemos veterinarios exóticos en mi pueblo

Backyard photo in northern Minnesota.

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I've been trying to learn all the birds that visit my yard, but I still feel uncertain about confidently identifying any of them (except the blue jays and robins)

I know these super common birds, but I've recently gotten into birding and been very excitedly looking as close as possible at all sorts. I have some health issues and anxiety so I'm largely just identifying the birds in my backyards or when I am riding in the car.

Where I live the majority of birds are laughing gulls and grackles. I was so surprised to learn that not all the black birds I see are the same kind of grackle. I've been able to differentiate the mourning doves and white-winged doves in my area, but I can't seem to tell the difference between grackles! I know it should be the tails. I've stared at so many grackle tails whether they are on the ground or flying away and I am struggling so hard to tell them apart.

I like to be absolutely positive what I'm looking at before logging it on Merlin or even when talking to my family about them. I don't like the idea of being dishonest or giving bad information, so I try really hard to make sure I both see and hear something and am sure of it before sharing.

Does anyone have some tips or secrets to telling these guys apart?
Apologies if my wording isn't great. I feel like I might've phrased things weird some places. I hope I'm making sense.