I was fishing and I saw this birds around the lake and their sound got my attention, Do you know the name of it? They are smaller than crows and have mechanical like sound.

Grackle?

 

2 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Grackle?

 

 Common Grackle ~ My guess as well.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Grackle/id

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Grackle/sounds

 

A-Jay

 

One of the blackbird family anyway - female Grackle looks good.

 

Get the BirdNet app.  Maybe my favorite app.  Just record the bird calls and it will tell you what you are hearing. 

35 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

Get the BirdNet app.  Maybe my favorite app.  Just record the bird calls and it will tell you what you are hearing. 

got that app, it will be very helpful for me and playful for my son, Thank you so much.

If it has a mechanical or throaty song it is usually a brewers blackbird or red wing black bird.. 

around here brewers are only  around during migration, but the red wings are everywhere.

They can both make quite a raucous when you get a flock of them.

 

grackles usually have a green or blue head.

Surfin'bird...haven't you heard?

4 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Dude, the best part was when poor stewie got bleeding nose 

4 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

 

That is my second favorite version of that song, behind the one the Cramps did in '78.

i never knew the Cramps covered that song. Thanks for posting the vid bb86, i was hoping someone would. Ever see the original video from the Trashmen? That dude was on something i would've tried back in my late teens. Maybe.

3 minutes ago, detroit1 said:

i never knew the Cramps covered that song.

 

Yeah, dude. That was the a-side to their debut single. B-side was "The Way I Walk."

The only song i saw them was in URGH! a music war, and i don't know what song that was.

Just now, detroit1 said:

The only song i saw them was in URGH! a music war, and i don't know what song that was.

 

Tear It Up and Human Fly. Might have done Drug Train then, too, not sure. The Ramones were the other band at the time to routinely cover Surfin Bird.

Tear it up..that is on the video. Thanks 99..now i can't get his mic act out of my mind. I really didn't want to see that again.  ?

7 minutes ago, detroit1 said:

Tear it up..that is on the video. Thanks 99..now i can't get his mic act out of my mind. I really didn't want to see that again.  ?

 

Kids these days with their low rise skinny jeans have absolutely nothing on Lux Interior ?

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16 hours ago, galyonj said:

 

That is my second favorite version of that song, behind the one the Cramps did in '78.

I enjoy it myself, my wife does not ?‍♂️

2 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

I enjoy it myself, my wife does not ?‍♂️

You just can't reach some people, you know?

grackle

 

Grackle. They viciously hunt small crabs in the rocks near the ocean and in saltwater rivers near the ocean. They grab them and quickly flip them over onto their belly and peck through them with their beaks. They even rip claws off sometimes. One of the strangest things I’ve seen fishing. You really have to see it to believe it.

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347201917403

 

Im serious when I say this, it is more shocking than giant sharks right at my feet or lightning strikes less than 100’ away. I would never believe it, except that I’ve seen them do it, there are even reports of them learning how to catch razor clams.

Grackle. They invade our bird feeder about once a day. 

37 minutes ago, Bankbeater said:

Grackle. They invade our bird feeder about once a day. 

Grackles swamp the trees at our local mall every summer. Several years ago the city announced they were going to let people come shoot them. (Welcome to Texas I guess.). Loooooooooot of people showed up...as well as the state government that informed everyone they’re federally protected. 

3 hours ago, huZZah said:

Grackles swamp the trees at our local mall every summer. Several years ago the city announced they were going to let people come shoot them. (Welcome to Texas I guess.). Loooooooooot of people showed up...as well as the state government that informed everyone they’re federally protected. 

I was fixing to say that’s a big NO NO. Starlings are the ones you can shoot