Perched grackle with blue top

The blue bird of grackleness
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#Boston #WestRoxbury #birds #grackles

Quiscalus quiscula or Common grackle

Grackles are back and still the crabbiest looking bird #birds #photography #birdphotography #birdwatching #grackles

A large number of grackles foraging on ground covered with dry grass. Photo taken in Southport NC US.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMovies

Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963)

#birds #grackles #BirdsofNC

A pair of grackles (large blackbirds with yellow eyes and loud calls) sit on a wire across the street from my house on a grey, overcast morning. Though perhaps fanciful, I can’t shake the feeling that they are discussing whether the human they followed home last night might perhaps be too fatty and high in cholesterol for their flock to consume as their morning snack.

Last night I ate on the patio of a local restaurant where thuggish representatives from the local flock of grackles attempted to extort dinner shares from diners. I declined to share & this morning find these two calling me names from across the street. Coincidence?
#birds #grackles #velociraptors

It’s too bad #grackles are so invasive and aggressive with smaller #birds.

They have such beautiful coloring.

#birdcam
#birdfeeder

I recently sold a black-colored streetwear t-shirt with male fit with a print my work of art called “A great-tailed grackle perched in a tree” in my TeePublic art shop. www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/6723...
#mattstarrfineart #grackle #grackles #bird #birds #art #paintings #artforsale #artist #dailyart

One of my friends in high places. Grackles are numerous on our lake right now.

#birds #birders #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #photography #floridawildlife #nature #wildlife #grackle #grackles #backyard #birdlovers #southflorida #featheredfriends 🪶

I love Grackles.

I love Grackles. ❤️

#birds #birders #birding #birdwatching #naturephotography #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #photography #floridawildlife #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #wildflorida #grackle #grackles #southflorida #backyard #birdlovers #featheredfriends 🪶

Great Tailed Grackle Male

Look at this little King.

#Grackles

A red-winged blackbird perches at a tube feeder, beak open and facing left as a seed slips from its bill. The bird and the feeder stand out sharply against a featureless, light grey backdrop.

A common grackle perches on the rim of a shallow bowl feeder, facing left, tail fanned wide in a V-shape, beak open around a peanut. The bird is rendered "sharply" against a featureless, pearl-white background.

Per Rob (@robcrank68.bsky.social), today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OpenBeak and the Alt Theme is #Gulls.

I've gone with a red-winged blackbird and a common grackle.

March 2026. Charlotte NC US.
#birds #BackyardBirding #BirdsofNC #Blackbirds #Grackles

Hi gigpalileo.
This grackle is beautiful in oil slick colors, in fact he wears them better than a real oil slick. Gracks seem to have some of the "presence" and self-awareness a crow has. They definitely have "attitude". 🤪

#birds #grackles

As #spring peeks through morning sub-freezing temps #Grackles and their shimmering #plumage are making an appearance #birds #nature #NewEngland #backyardbirds

Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social said today's #BirdOfTheDay theme was #Feeders. A few photos from past years. #EasternBluebirds #Grackles #TuftedTitmouse #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #nikonZ #EastCoastKin #pennsylvania

A portrait I made of my favorite Grackle in a beautyberry frame.

#birds #bird #birders #birding #birdwatching #birdart #birdoftheday #natureart #naturephotography #birdphotography #floridawildlife #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #grackle #grackles #iridescence #birdlovers #featheredfriends 🪶

Quite the fray this morning, two #venezuelantroupials guarded the palm trees against the #grackles

After a scuffle, 12 #dove #feathers floated down.

¡Finalmente!
Between a #Goddess and a #Druid, the #grackles finally eat the tropical seeds.

Color photo of a large-ish black bird with yellow eyes and open beak perched on a wire rack.

In my car at HEB (a TX supermarket chain) waiting for curbside pickup and in the row of empty racks were several of these great-tailed #grackles - (AKA by me PLBs, Parking Lot Birds) serenading me with their unique raucous cacophony.

#MondaysAreForTheBirds #birds #photography #gracklesbegrackling

Scores of Common Grackles crowd a snow-covered deck during snowfall - more in the left background tree wait their turn. Snowy evergreen trees and yard in the background.

When a busload of grackles crashes
the all-you-can-eat buffet

#WildlifePhotography #Birds #Birding #Grackles #Nature #BackyardBirding #BirdOfTheDay #FourOrMore #EastCoastKin

#grackles of #Austin #Texas #bird #birdsofinstagram #texasphotographer

Common Grackle taking a splash bath in our South Florida neighborhood lake.

Splish splash, he was takin' a bath.

#birds #birders #birding #birdwatching #natureart #naturephotography #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #photography #floridawildlife #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #grackle #grackles #splash #southflorida #backyard #birdlovers #featheredfriends 🪶

A female grackle in flight, holding a crawfish in her beak

This was my first time seeing a grackle fly by with a crawfish!
Southeast Texas, February 07, 2026.

#Birds #Photography #TexasStateParks #NaturePhotography #Grackles #BirdPhotography #Crawfish

Like living music
notes upon the evening
sky - the blackbirds leave

to wherever it is they
go to dream their nightly dreams

#DailyHaikuPrompt #note #haiku #tanka #birds #grackles #poem #poetry

Hi Colleen.
Wow! This is a wonderful transformation from wallflower to glittering puffed-up Superbird! Great video! I love grackles! 😍

#birds
#grackles

"If you want to show your true colors you must spread your wings & make yourself look bigger than you feel at times."
-- A Grackle who practices this art.

#birds #birders #natureart #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #floridawildlife #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #grackle #grackles

SKETCHBOOK 12 – MORE BIRDS Encouraged by your encouragement, I did a few more birds, including a pair of Cardinals. They aren't as fat this year, probably because they have to compete with a giant flock of starving Grackles. I don't know if the Grackles are really starving, but they act like they haven't eaten in years. They act like that while they are eating, so I think that, like the Duke, they are permanently ready for a good feed.

SKETCHBOOK 12 - MORE BIRDS #Drawings #Grackles #Cardinals

LAST TWO ON THE CARDS Last on the Card – January 2022 I think we -- as a family -- took more pictures during the past three or four days than we took the entire rest of the month. The huge blizzard that hit us geared everyone up, and since Owen had the perfect camera -- an Olympus Tough TG-6 -- ready to go out into the snow and ice?

LAST TWO ON THE CARDS #Photography #Crows #Grackles

Tried some new ways of editing to help bring out the colors on this great-tailed grackle.

#nature #birds #birding #backyardbirding #outside #baginnerphotographer #naturephotographer #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nikon #protectourplant #grackles #birdsoftexas #ecology #hillcountry #environment

Grackle perched on a cattail. Grackles have purple/blue iridescent heads, yellow eyes and green/cinnamon iridescent back and tail feathers.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescent. Here's a Grackle demonstrating the beauty of iridescent feathers. #Birds #Grackles #WetlandBirds

An 8 Grackle Buffet. 75mm, 1/1000, f2.8, iso 5000, red25 and 1/4 black mist filters. #photography #snow #winter #grackles #gothic #bw #blackandwhite

Coming In Hot. 75mm, 1/800th, f2.8, iso 2000. #bif #bifphotography #photography #grackles #birds #bw #blackandwhite