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Today's Bird- the Common Grackle

Smaller than Crows & Ravens

By Lightning Bolt ⚡Published 9 months ago Updated 9 months ago 1 min read
Quiscalus quiscula

~~🐦🐦🐦‍⬛🪶This is my continuing daily series that explores the avian world one bird at a time. "I would like to paint the way the world sings." -- Claude Monet

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Master of disguise

black but then iridescent

sharp, metallic calls

_______________Bolt

Click below to continue to fly!

L.B.

Haikunature poetry

About the Creator

Lightning Bolt ⚡

Bolt aka Bill, a bizarre bisexual bipolar alliterative epileptic Taco Bell Futurist 🌮, an Aquarian oddball w/ a malfunctioning brain. 🧠

I write comedy, poetry, sci fi, & horror.

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  • Mother Combs9 months ago

    Great haiku. What a wildly unique bird. Love the colors

  • Dana Crandell9 months ago

    They're doing very well here. We have quite a population of them, along with Great Tailed Grackles. They're also talented mimics.

  • Lamar Wiggins9 months ago

    Weird how the one in the first vid puffs up every time before it does its call. Cool birds.Thanks for sharing, Bill!

  • Aaron Villalobos9 months ago

    The description makes it sound cool. Reminds me of some high-tech gadgets I've worked with. Gotta see where it leads.

  • Annie Kapur9 months ago

    I love the way your poems sound - like I can hear “sharp, metallic sounds” ❤️❤️❤️

  • Susan Fourtané 9 months ago

    What an interesting bird. It seems they are not very popular among other smaller birds in the seed feeders.

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