Don's Jersey Birding: Good bird or bad bird?

[Donna]

http://wildnewjersey.tv/2011/09/13/dons-jersey-birding-good-bird-or-bad-bird.aspx story and pics

Why are grackles made out to be bad guys? Because they eat seed that people put out for, guess what…BIRDS? How dare those grackles have the nerve to think that they are birds! I often think that if grackles were much more colorful, let’s say for argument’s sake, pink, I would be getting phone calls asking how to attract them to the backyard. But instead most people think the grackle wears the black leather jacket of backyard hoodlum.