Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Another Look at the Common Grackle

Here's another look at one of the Grackles that visit our feeder. It's the same bird, or the mate to, the bird in the last post, just hidden in the shadow so you can't see it's beautiful iridescent head.

It looks quite angry in this photo due to it's light yellow eyes. Grackles can be aggressive towards other foraging birds, but they generally don't fight anyone for the seed at the feeders. Must be something special about a bug...