Showing posts with label great-tailed grackle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label great-tailed grackle. Show all posts

Friday, July 4, 2008

Great-tailed Grackle Colony

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This was a view from a cemetery in Texas and I couldn’t help but think of Jenni in Kansas when I saw it.


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We stopped at a cemetery near the highway in Oklahoma, somewhere after I poked fun at the naming of the Washita River (I kid you not). I kept singing WY! Sheet a River, I’m a dork that way. But back to the point, this cemetery was inundated (they nest in colonies) with Great-tailed Grackles.


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Huge, happy, hungry (apparently) Grackles. And these photos are of various ones and pairs, not the same one over and over.


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So many of the mama Grackles had bugs in their mouths, I am assuming for babies and the daddies were telling us to get the heck away from their trees, where I assume the nests were.


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