Re: Great Tailed Grackles, Mourning Doves, and Me

On May 10, 12:10 pm, "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer)"
<reunite.gondw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Based on my extensive bird-watching here over the years, the favorite
> food of the great tailed grackle is the fast food French fry.  They
> cruise the parking lots and tidy them up, starting with the fries.
> They're pretty bold about it, too, although they won't actually try to
> take the fries out of your hand the way the Steller's jays will in
> Yosemite.  My dad, who worked running horses in the Wasatch and was in
> the CCC, called jays "camp robbers" and it's a pretty accurate name.

I guess I've got to go to Yosemite some day (Yosomedaye?) 'cause the
Steller'ses in Oregon never let me get that close.

And do the grackles appoint junior members to fight off the English
Sparrows at the French Fry Showdown?

/dps