No, these aren’t portraits showing the extraordinary beauty of Grackles, this is what happens when you put butter cookies out for them. Butter cookies, a leading cause of temporary grackle insanity. All images 1500 x 996, click for full size. I rather like the disembodied talon in the last shot.
© C. Ford.
The second is a laser stare of a cookie monster grackle. The rest, motion blur in spades and fragmentary evidence of dinosaurs going after cookies. Apart from the talon, I like the third, escaping grackle’s tail.
It was all “Cooooooooookies! Grab the Cooooooookies and
runfly!”I’m now eating a Belgian butter wafer cookie with raspberry jam.
Oh gods, they’d go berserk. I think I’m going to have some butter cookies too. It’s infectious.
Mmkay, judging by the evil stare in the second picture down, I shall never, ever try to get between a grackle and their butter cookie.
The single talon is just eerie. Leaving body parts behind for the sake of a cookie. *tsk tsk tsk*
Starving the rats now, are we?