My Railing

1/250 sec. f/9 ISO 1000

Grackle

Showing Off

1/320 sec. f/7.1 ISO 1600

Grackle

Intensity

1/250 sec. f/6.3 ISO 500

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Why So Angry?

1/250 sec. f/6.3 ISO 800

Balancing Act

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So Trashy

I found out these grackles weren't just sitting on the trash can to get some sun and have a chat. They were waiting for the other grackles already inside the trash can to leave so they could have lunch, too.

This grackle was apparently looking for nesting material or maybe just trying to clean things up a bit (I lean toward the former) and ended up getting string wrapped around its head.

Trashy though they may be at times, even grackles enjoy some summertime watermelon. The fact it has the consistency of jelly is apparently not a deterrent.

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Warm Weather Wings

Our weather was very nice yesterday with the temperature hitting the mid-60's. I took advantage of it to shoot a project, but during the course of shooting those photos, I came across a variety of birds. The robins were everywhere and I also saw a lot of cardinals. The hawk in the last photo was the one bird I really wanted to photograph, but I couldn't begin to get close enough for decent shots. I took that photo at 500mm and it was as close as I got. The hawk was gone before I could close the distance.

Robin

Grackle

Cardinal (male)

Red-winged Blackbird (male)

House Sparrows

Robin

Starling

Unknown hawk

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