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Quiscalus quiscula
Common Grackles are blackbirds that look like they've been slightly stretched. They're taller and longer tailed than a typical blackbird, with a longer, more tapered bill and glossy-iridescent bodies. Grackles walk around lawns and fields on their long legs or gather in noisy groups high in trees, typically evergreens. They eat many crops (notably corn) and nearly anything else as well, including garbage. In flight their long tails trail behind them, sometimes folded down the middle into a shallow V shape. [Cornell]
Spotted on Mar 23, 2013
Submitted on Mar 25, 2013
7 Comments
OK Fyn, I'll go to Nature Chat.
Nice! I keep trying and trying to get a good shot of these and the Red-winged Blackbirds but their very observant. Can't wait until I get my SLR this winter! Hey, would you like to chat on Nature Chat?
Thanks Fyn. I photographed this one and a few of the other feeder type birds from inside my house. I just opened a window in the spare room upstairs and waited for the birds to give a good pose:-)
Your images are irresistible! It's literally impossible not to favorite them!
Thanks Ali and Gerardo!
Great series :)
So Sweet!