Grackle flock of about 50 birds.  Love the chatter of the Grackles as they head south for the winter.
Thirty years ago we would commonly see a single flock of well over a thousand birds.  Now we are lucky to see a few flocks of 100 birds.  The Grackles, like most of our song birds, are in steep decline.  These birds need grassland and woods edge habitat and much of that habitat is now corn fields or parking lots for more malls.