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Poor grackle can’t catch a break
[dropcap]I[/dropcap] was in downtown Kyle recently, walking around in a small city park with a circular fountain spraying water high into the fresh spring air.
Strutting around the base of the fountain was a male great-tailed grackle, resplendent in his black, iridescent plumage, and trying to impress a smaller, less splendid female grackle. As so often happens in the world of both birds and humans, she ignored him completely.
It occurred to me that I had not seen a grackle is a long time. Not...