Where do all the grackyles go when they die?

HerrHerr · Post by **HerrHerr** » July 18th, 2006, 3:34 pm

Seriously.

This town is filled with those damn birds. I've lived here for seven years and haven't seen a single dead bird.

The lifespan of a grackyle cannot be THAT long.

So do they fly away somewhere and die? Do cats eat them or do other predators?

In fact, excpet for birds smashed by cars, I haven't ever seen a dead bird in my life.

Where do all the birds go to die?

vine311 · Post by **vine311** » July 18th, 2006, 3:35 pm

Look in your closet when you get home. I think you'll find what you are looking for.

valetoile · Post by **valetoile** » July 18th, 2006, 4:04 pm

I see dead birds ALL THE TIME. I even consdered carrying a camera around with me all the time so that I could take pictures of all the dead birds I see. I think if you're usually in a car, you don't notice them. But they are there.

kaci_beeler · Post by **kaci_beeler** » July 18th, 2006, 7:28 pm

Valerie, have you ever considered that those birds might be...IN YOUR HEAD?!

...A dead bird bed, a dead bird hairclip, dead birds in the guacamole...

WATCH OUT!
Is that your innocent black patent mary jane shoe...or a bent-up, well-shined grackle?

ratliff · Post by **ratliff** » July 19th, 2006, 11:39 am

I suspect Val of being a witch. BURN HER!

eplischke · Post by **eplischke** » July 19th, 2006, 11:55 am

I had a sketch idea for these birds. I told 2-3 people my sketch idea and no one got it because I guess most people aren't as observant of them as I am. I noticed (has anyone else?) that when they are on the ground in a group they all seem to look up at the sky. So, I thought it would be funny to have just one standing there looking up at the sky and have the others walk in one at a time and look up to see what it is the others are looking at. My friends and i used to play that joke on each other in high school. Anyway if you have never noticed that these birds do that then the sketch doesn't make any sense. Does my post even make sense? I don't know! Who am I?

HerrHerr · Post by **HerrHerr** » July 19th, 2006, 12:18 pm

valetoile wrote:I see dead birds ALL THE TIME.

I see Haley Joel Osment.

But seriously. Writing sketches about birds is bad if the bird dies in the sketch. You should write that sketch, Erin. I've written three sketches about birds.

So, Val, where are all these dead birds?

Jules · Post by **Jules** » July 19th, 2006, 2:42 pm

I just wish the live ones would go away. They always sound like someone fed them acid soaked bird feed.

sara farr · Post by **sara farr** » July 19th, 2006, 3:04 pm

My sister & I used to call grackles "zoo birds" because, when we were growing up, they seemed exclusive to Houston's Zoo. Of course we lived out in the suburbs where there were all sorts of birds, and we hardly saw any grackles. But, having lived in several big cities now, I say HOORAY for "zoo birds". I'd rather have them than more pidgeons (rats with wings) and sparrows (mice with wings).

I mostly have doves & bluejays in my current backyard (way out here in the suburbs) and have only seen one dead dove, which I assume got caught by a neighbor cat. My doves sound lovely. The jays are very noisey. Only occasionally do I hear grackles out this way.

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/BOW/COMGRA/

PS -- What's up with doves sitting in the middle of the street? Are they just stupid? (They are pretty closely related to dumb pidgeons.)

arthursimone · Post by **arthursimone** » July 19th, 2006, 4:36 pm

grackles are very handsome birds. hardy survivors. I tip my hat to them and there is birdseed inside.

HerrHerr · Post by **HerrHerr** » July 20th, 2006, 2:19 pm

Not grackles. Grackyles, the Persian mytholgical birds of the Orient.

Anyway, I saw a dead baby bird today. Ask and ye shall receive.

I also saw a sign that read "Beware of Birds." Seriously. Outside of the William B. Travis building while I was covering the Public Utilities Comission meeting at work. No birds attacked. But they will. One day.

eplischke · Post by **eplischke** » July 20th, 2006, 4:34 pm

Jen works with a guy who gets attacked by this one bird everytime he walks in and out of the place they work at. It always starts with the bird 'cawwing' from some hidden location. Then the bird singles him out every time, flies down, and pecks him on the head. This has been going on for almost 3 months and only until recently has it gone after anyone else. The bird has not only pecked him in the head it has even on one occasion called in reinforcements. Jen said when they walked out they heard him cackling and saw him sitting on a telephone line (or something) by himself and he kept making noise until two more birds flew up and landed on the wire next to him.

York99 · Post by **York99** » July 21st, 2006, 12:49 pm

3 months??? That's one of the funnier things this world has to offer.

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Where do all the grackyles go when they die?

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