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["Bill Russell" <shaman@pennswoods.net>]

4 & 20 blackbirds baked in a pie?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Grackles?


Last year in our southwestern Ontario village I saw a few Grackles.  This
year there are too many to count, and
> they are a real pest of a bird.  They are dirty, leaving their droppings
everywhere, and drive off other birds.
>
> Very aggressive bird too.  I cannot scare them off.
>
> Any information on this grackle problem?
>
I've eaten grackle.  Not too bad.
Back when I was in undergrad, working as the diener in the postmortem lab at
the vet school, one of the vet students who worked with me was pretty close
to destitute, and she and her husband would eat just about anything they
could catch.  I remember one time, he'd shot a bunch of grackles &
blackbirds, dressed 'em out like doves, wrapped each breast in a strip of
bacon, placed 'em in a shallow casserole dish, poured a can of cream of
mushroom soup over 'em, baked 'em, and I will say that they were as tasty as
any mourning dove I ever ate.

Lucky Pittman
Hopkinsville, KY

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