Blackbirds bring healthy weather.
Blackbirds flocking in the fall indicate a spell of cold weather.
Buzzards.
A solitary turkey-buzzard at a great altitude indicates rain.
Buzzards flying high indicate fair weather.
Bluebirds.
When bluebirds twitter and sing, they call to each other of rain.
Chickens.
Chickens, when they pick up small stones and pebbles and are more noisy than usual, afford, according to Aratus, a sign of rain. Other authors prognosticate the coming of rain from the habit fowls have of rubbing in the dust and clapping their wings.
When chickens crow before sundown, it is a sign of rain next day.