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Picture this...
- Thread starter cmartinez
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It's the picture of the "Common Grackle" that gives me the creeps ... that thing's giving you the Evil Eye
I've gotten that look over the dinner table before, from the mother hen.
geekoftheweek
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The Cardinal is interesting. I only see the obvious red ones myself, but they're the easiest to spot. This one not so obvious.
The big eye on the wood duck and unlikely plumage makes them seem otherworldly. I don’t have any photos on peak plumage, but this is close. When they start to molt they look really messy.
Grackles look really mean. They can’t help it—but they are really mean and those beaks are weapons… I guess it’s nature’s way of warning us about their nature. Don’t let them catch you watching while they “floof”.
(By the way, the sky is that color because of the Canadian wildfires. I like to think that grackle was turning to me with a WTF?! look.)
Mourning dove is mourning who?
The Mourning Doves call is a very lonely sounding call hence its name. But it's a speedster capable of flying at over 60mph and can be very acrobatic when needed. The small male Wood Duck is the most "Nattily Dressed" of all the ducks and a very early riser leaving its roost predawn and coming into the feeding ponds just at the break of day and returning to its roosting area just as night falls. It doesn't quack like most ducks but squeals. It will come to a Mallard Duck call though. Also, more solitary than flock ducks.
That is a female during breeding season, she is at her more colorful. She’ll tone down afterwards.
The wood duck is very colorful but if I had to vote for the most decorated duck commonly found in the US, it would have to be the mandarin. There are some others internationally, but the mandarin seems just a ahead of the others—the wood duck does score special points for iridescence, though. (photo not mine, photographer unknown)
mandarin duck
