Three male Common Grackles in the backyard bird feeding area here in  
Norwich village today (March 10) were my first sightings of this  
species here in 2009.

My earliest spring record in past years for Common Grackles in Norwich  
was on February 26, 2002.


George

George Clark
Norwich, VT

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