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The boat-tailed grackle might be one of the more underappreciated members of the avian world. For one, it's among, the most common birds around. Second is its looks, seemingly, uninterestingly all black. Third is its willingness to eat almost anything, including garbage.
And then there is its blasted unmelodious call. It's just noise to the human ear.
But Quiscalus major shouldn't be so easily dimissed. Yeah, there are a lot of them, but that's because as a species they're doing something right.
The reality is that this bird is anything but plain. In the right light, iridescent blues and greens become apparent, making the boat-tailed beautiful.
And it actually has a fairly complex social structure. Boat-taileds form colonies, where males fight to be the king of the roost, so to speak, and the mating rights that go with it. While the top bird gets his share of the action, according to Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, a lot goes on behind his back. Only about a quarter of the young of a given flock carry the DNA of the dominant male.
Boat-tailed's range extends along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts from Texas to New York and Connecticut. But only in Florida do they venture inland.
Boat-tailed grackles forage near and in water for insects, snails, crayfish, frogs, fish and shrimp. They also eat seeds, scraps of food — we've seen them steal french fries from an occupied picnic table — and will take the eggs and young of other birds. They can be pesty in agricultural areas — farmers have been known to take pot shots at them even though they are protected under the Migratory Species Act.
Boat-tailed populations are generally stable, but they do face a threat from declining habitat. They are members of Icteridae, the blackbird and oriole family.
I found this male "Strutting His Stuff" along the shore of Lake Kissimmee at the Joe Overstreet Landing in Osceola County, Florida.
Not a duck I see often, in fact I think my only times seeing it have been on the mainland, the Northern Pintail makes for an elegant looking duck with its patterns.
Robin, Mary and I, went to an alligator farm and they had peacocks walking inbetween the pens. An odd combination....
At the 9th st. rookery in Santa Rosa, Ca. you spend so much time watching the activities in the trees and sky sometimes you fail to look down and see what's going on on the ground. This Snowy Egret was 'strutting his stuff' while walking across the road in search of that special twig or branch for nesting material!
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Because a video says more than a thousand words, here is Blanca showing off her current trotting ability without brace!
Left knee ligament was last re-injured 3.5 months ago. I still don't let her run free on the beach but mostly just out of an abundance of caution. I'll give it just a little more time. There is a bit of a wobble in her gait that she didn't used to have, but I'll take it!
Length: 2:43
Music: "Corps of Discovery" by A_A_Aalto
from freemusicarchive.org
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What to do on those stay-at-home days? Grab your camera, run outside and click away as your subject walks up the middle of the street while hoping she would turn in the correct direction so a catchlight would show in her eye.
It's Thursday, make sure you strut yourself today even if no one is watching. Besides if you don't, NO ONE WILL!!!
Embrace the turkey, Be one with the turkey, Be the turkey.
Be well and be blessed. Also remember, for all things holy, be nice to one another!
Enjoy.
In June I attended an excellent workshop where we learned about and photographed jazz dancers in a studio setup using strobe lighting, with the dancers in black against a white background. Other manipulated images from this workshop can be found here: In Studio.
All the dancers were members of a Los Angeles-based group called JazzAntiqua. The dancer seen in this image is Albertossy Espinoza. The background is a manipulation of a photo I shot in Seattle of the side of architect Frank Gehry's Experience Music Project. The texture is also mine.
This is the second opportunity I've had to shoot professional dancers in a controlled situation and I feel privileged to live where such opportunities are available. My images of the first workshop, shot on location at Union Station, can be viewed here: Cameras & Dancers.
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They walked right into the road, which was thankfully in Kohler Andrae State Park and not a busy street. They were definitely focused on the female that came out and were really showing off their plumage!