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Yesterday a Common Grackle joined the Red-winged Blackbirds at my feeders.
A Sharp-shinned Hawk also returned, much to the consternation of the smaller birds.
Some years a Sharpie will stay all winter hunting passerines at my feeders. This year I had not seen one for three months!
This morning a Northern Flicker moved through with a flock of 30 - 40 robins that stopped in my yard. Flickers are ant specialists so I don't know what this one was finding to eat although I have in the past seen them pick up suet crumbs under feeders.
John