Grackle in the Maple

I've always had mixed feelings about Grackles. They're pretty--but they're also sassy and aggressive and just generally not good citizens.

But I do like this photo. I'm posting two crops, today, and if you're my friend on Facebook you saw a color version as my cover pic a year ago.

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Last May 13 I posted an odd variant on the Finch at Feeder theme. I'm still rather pleased with it. (And the title's my notion of a pun.)

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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.

Number of project photos taken: 87
Title of "roll:" Birds, Birds, and More Birds
Other photos taken on 5/13/2012: A couple hours later I shot 87 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. Then the Daily Flower Census mostly found buds.

And for Mother's day we visited the farm, where Joan's brother Dave was moving in after returning from his several-year Louisiana sojourn.