The Square Odds – February Caught in sunlight, the Grackle looks like gold.
Grackles
SKETCHBOOK 5 – BESIEGED
The pictures I drew don’t show it, but we are under siege by a huge number of grackles and a flock of Brown-headed Cowbirds who showed up a couple of days ago, much to my dismay. The Blue Jays looked… Read More ›
JUST ONE GRACKLE ON A BRIGHT WINTER SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Our now-standard groups of hundreds of Grackles didn’t visit today. They left yesterday around brunch and only one returned today just before dinner. He sat on the pole that supports the wooden feeder. Perfectly posed, though it was late in… Read More ›
BUSY DAY FOR ME AND GRACKLES: SKETCHBOOK 3
Not long ago Marilyn posted this update. RP Despite their menacing appearance, grackles are easily startled. If I tap on my window very gently — so lightly even the ever-nervous doves don’t pay attention – the grackles will be in flight… Read More ›
GRACKLES AT HOME
I can’t get them to leave, so I might as well enjoy their beauty. This was the second sunny day in a row — a near miracle! — and they were back.
BRING ON THE GRACKLES!
The Grackles have been lingering. I’m worried they are thinking about roosting here. Today was the first day they brought the ladies here. I’d only seen males before. Today, there were bunches of solid brown birds — the lady grackles…. Read More ›
MAURAUDERS
The grackles come and go, but for the past week, mostly, they have come. They never stay all day, but there are so many of them, if each takes a nibble, they eat everything in half a day and the… Read More ›
ANOTHER RETURN OF THE GRACKLES
Captions: Garry Armstrong They never entirely left. For a while, there were only a couple of them hanging around. Sometimes, a mob of them would show up and I could see and hear them from anywhere in the house. Once,… Read More ›
THE NOT SO COMMON GRACKLE
Birds of the Week Invitation XXVIII For the first 20 years we lived here, we got an annual invasion by the Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula). They typically showed up in our neck of the woods around the end of October or… Read More ›
GRACKLES ARE BACK
It’s not the entire flock, but I’m glad to see them. They have gone missing for the past two years and I was afraid the farmers (who really don’t like grackles) had finally killed them all. We didn’t have a… Read More ›
WHERE ARE THE GRACKLES?
They showed up briefly. Just one day, but didn’t stay. I waited for them. I am still waiting for them, hoping they will return. The problem is, the breed is in a steep decline and is now considered threatened. 60%… Read More ›
AN OVERLOAD OF PLENTY – OR PLENTY OF OVERLOAD
For a while I have been wondering why I take pictures but can’t find them. Well, it turned out that I had a 64 GB card in the secondary drive of my camera and there were thousands of pictures on… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 