#grackle
“Spring’s here,” he shouts. Happy Saturday with the first Grackle puff of 2021!
The beginning of May,
my favorite month of the year, is also the point in time when the serviceberry blooms. And everybody comes to pose in front of it. (male Rosebreasted Grosbeak, Blue Jay, Grackle (‘tis the Count himself!), MoDo, female Redwinged Blackbird, female Rosebreasted Grosbeak)
Spring is in the air,
and there is no denying it, despite the frost, and the birds are starting to show up as couples. I saw Blue Jays gathering stuff, the Robins are becoming more defensive, the MoDos are snogging things up and the House Finches are getting romantic. So much to see, such nasty weather!
‘Holding Back Birds’, digital painting, 2015. Trying to hold back one’s own inner nature is like holding back a flock of birds; no matter how determined you are, things are going to keep slipping through. What would you be capable of, if you could free yourself of the task? If you weren’t spending all your energy on not being yourself?
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Double puff, just to be safe.
This is the most ghibli-esc movement I’ve ever seen an animal make
Grackle bathtime. Starling & grackle fledglings were making a racket at the park
Common Grackle Portraits
03/30/22
Common Grackle - They’re Baaaack. Harbingers of spring, the first one this year showed up March 26th, about the time they have arrived the past five years, looking sleek, iridescent, and ready for the mating game. There was one for 3 days, and then by yesterday a family had gathered. We expect hundreds to arrive by April. A lot of folks don’t care for these guys, but I love their goofiness.
3/29/2022
“Sassy Stroll” Common Grackle. 6"x8" Oil on panel. Painting the way the morning sun created so much iridescence on this bird was challenging but enjoyable.
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My grandparents barn, their horse (ft. a couple of cows), and a male common grackle crowing on top of a tree through the lens of binoculars :)
Photos from kayaking today. It was a beautifully overcast day, and I’m happy with how some of these shots turned out. Saw 3 nerodia, one in the same spot as last week, but I’ve been trying to get better photos of the resident birds for a while.
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