2017.01.13 Friday: A flock of Common grackles went through my yard today ...From a representative sample, I estimated that there were at least 60 birds in the flock. They kept moving about, so it was hard to get an accurate count.
As usual, they noisily paraded around my yard like a bunch of marauding pirates, but I enjoyed watching them since (for some inexplicable reason!) they did not raid my bird feeders.