My wife said she saw the second hole about a year ago and thought it was a dirt spot on the siding.
Bird nest in my siding with grackles.
Check the label information to make sure the weight activation mechanism can be fine tuned to exclude grackles and not just squirrels.
Another good choice is a feeder with an adjustable weight activated perch.
The inside is lined with finer materials.
They let small birds enter but not the larger grackles.
It will close when a heavy bird like a grackle lands on it.
The common grackle is a scrappy bird if there ever were one.
The female will lay 4 to 7 eggs that are pale greenish brown with dark marks.
The nest is made of grass twigs reeds and mud.
Common grackles often nest in small colonies and several males may perch in adjacent treetops to sing their creaking grating songs.
I can t see if there are any bugs or any other reason that would attract this bird to my home.
Common grackles build bulky nests in conifer trees dense spruce or other similar small trees.
The nest can take as little as a week to as long as six weeks to finish.
Upon inspection of other areas i found another hole similar to the first one.
The boat tailed and great tailed grackles as well as red winged and yellow headed blackbirds nest in marshes and aren t usually in residential areas in summer.
You can find the nest located in a shrub or tree 3 to 30 feet above the ground or water.
Rarely common grackles nest in unusual places such as birdhouses woodpecker holes cliff crevices barns and still occupied nests of osprey and great blue herons.
This coupled with the fact that they are not at all picky as to.
For instance birds build their nests out of any nearby material they can get their beaks on.
Of course that is unless you live near a marsh or wetland.
If they build near your home that might mean materials you d rather they didn t use.
A single female can lay four to seven eggs in a single mating season.
Females typically build the nest with males sometimes helping or making repairs.