New Visitor

I havent been able to get a picture of this new visitor because he takes off too quickly before I have a chance. It took me a few days to figure out what he was though. At first I was thinking oh no, Im going to get overrun with crows, but this guy was way too small to be a crow and besides he had white in the eyes a touch, like a white ring around each eye. And he was smaller.
Then I thought maybe a raven, but nope he wasnt "fuzzy" enough with feathers in the neck and on the beak to be a raven. So I looked all through my bird book and couldnt find anything. Well there is this website I use sometimes that you use a step by step to identify birds and its pretty neat, because it sure helped me figure this guy out.... its a grackle.
And its weird because they usually travel in "packs" or whatever LOL anyway, this guy is by himself, and comes around every day to eat, and he eats with the other little birds. So as long as its just him (as the females are a brownish color), I dont mind it.

And my carolina wrens have been getting quite comfy with my carpot...a little too comfy almost. I pulled into the carport earlier from going to the store and one of them landed on the wall by the car and just sat there with the running car next to it and didnt try to fly off. They sleep on the corners of my carport every night, had 2 last night up there in different corners...a friend of mine calls them the Blair Witch birds hehee They come up on my front porch, and into the carport. Heck I will be in here watching TV and hear the cardinals singing on the front porch.

Not to mention the hummingbirds, I will be sitting on the front porch watching everybody and they will come hover in front of me and just sit there or come sit on the railing for a few minutes. Some of the birds do that, its neat that they are learning to trust me, but if anybody else is around, they wont come up there. Soon my neighbors will be calling me Bird Lady hehee

I am saddened though as I have neighbors WAYYYYY down the street who have a cat they wont get neutered and they dont care where he goes or what he does, and he came down here last night and killed one of my doves. One of these days Im just going to catch that cat and take him off somewhere because it makes me mad. I mean I know its natural for a cat to do these things but not to my birds...