Ruben and I left home at 2:30 a.m. and met Damien Simbeck at the
pits(Shelby Co) to try to relocate the Inca Dove he saw last night. We were
unable to find it,but between 1:00 and 2:00 p.m. David Chaffin stopped by
on his way to Phoenix and had a Great-tailed Grackle sitting on a
chain-link fence. He called me after seeing the bird drop down by some
puddles behind fresh dirt mounds. We got there 5 minutes later and started
searching through the Common Grackles. I saw a huge Grackle fly farther
back behind the fence and drop back down(from behind the dirt hump where
last seen) but several more hours of searching proved fruitless relocating
the bird.
