In Kansas the sky would be black with them and poop all over. Another thing in Kansas that Idaho does not have is toads. The streets would have smashed frogs all over. They would come out under street lights and in driveways and eat bugs and so many you had to be careful not to step on them.
Yes, I just called them robin because they were blue.
other birds too. 
. I wasn't sure if the bucket contents were thawed, but they were. Two went in a flower bed that, at least, has a half day of sun. Zero went in the little veggie garden because the ground is still frozen! That bed has 100% summer sun but is shaded because of the low winter sun's low angle of light. Five buckets, I found room for after prying the top frozen layer off the compost. Everything under that looked like it had been decomposing nicely through some of the winter weeks.). DW wants them to go out in the February sunshine. Maaaybe sheets will dry. Despite being dedicated to clotheslines, I'm sceptical of winter drying outdoors. When I was young, I had an indoor clothes rack . Basements are not nice but a clothes rack in the middle of the living room - that'll do it!
I would have said there are no racoons here until last year, so with a moose walking down the alley and a coon on my porch, anything is possible. lol. I am going to take a picture of the birds when I see them.it isn't very common for grackles to have speckles on them. normally they are more solid black with the iridescent green, blues, purples around the neck and head. they're very pretty birds IMO.
possums, raccoons both eat a lot of eggs around here.
