Truck Stop Birds

[tamrock]

These birds hang out at the Tooele, Utah Flying J truck stop. I got some gas there and just grabbed some grub off the counter and go over to a patch of grass with some trees in the corner of the parking lot to have lunch. They're a black bird of some kind and the females have more of a dirty yellowish color. The Males are Black and they're always having fights and conflicts it seems with each other. I believe I've seen these birds in Texas before and they make a load chattering call. They're just not the typical black bird types I see in my area. I threw them a few scraps of my lunch so I could get some shots of them. Kind of a motley looking bird species imo.

 

[Kray Gelder]

They look like grackles.

 

[CoinHunterAZ]

Agreed, they look like Grackles to me too. Around here we have the Great Tailed Grackles, they are noisy as as get out, but fun to watch all the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-tailed_grackle

 

[Hillbilly Prince]

Magpies? Probably not.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice shots!

 

[tamrock]

Agreed, they look like Grackles to me too. Around here we have the Great Tailed Grackles, they are noisy as as get out, but fun to watch all the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-tailed_grackle

That might be what they are. These guys make a lot chatter, plus I've seen these type of grackles mostly future south. They're not around where I live, as we have a smaller grackle that doesn't make as much a racket as these guys do.

 

[A2coins]

The Birds Alfred Hitchcock cool pics