Something a little different today as it’s a species I’ve never seen in the flesh and wasn’t aware of its existence until today! I’ve been watching a few YouTube webcams of bird feeders in America and had no idea what birds were frequenting them which hadn’t bothered me as I quite like the idea of not knowing things (there is so much to learn about in this world!). But I thought today I’d see if I can get at least one of them identified. My physical bird total for the USA is two species, both seen during a layover at Miami Airport in 2018, a House Sparrow, which even now are singing in my garden in the UK as I write this, and a bird I had to jot down and do a crude drawing of; this turned out to be a Boat-tailed Grackle. My knowledge of American birds is…
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