[obol] Re: [Fwd: [birding] Fwd: Grackle at Ankeny]

  • From: Jeff Gilligan <jeffgilligan10@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: joel.geier@xxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 20:53:31 -0700

Its a Great-tailed Grackle.


On Jun 16, 2014, at 8:46 PM, Joel Geier <joel.geier@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This one looks like a real grackle, for folks who get excited about grackles 
> ...
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Don Boucher <bouchdon@xxxxxxxx>
> To: birding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [birding] Fwd: Grackle at Ankeny
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:12:14 -0700
> 
> See 
> photos:https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mid-valley-nature/i_HOcQ7rPa4/179YnQvUrz8J
> 
> On 6/16/2014 6:52 PM, Ted - Gmail wrote:
> Don,
> 
> Here are better photo examples.  I was at the pull off on the north side 
> of Ankeny last evening (6-15).  I don't know what road that is.  It is 
> the pull off with a shelter and two driveways a little east of the rail 
> tracks.  There are usually a lot of herons there, and last week, a great 
> egret.
> 
> I took the photo as an after thought after the last heron flew away.  I 
> didn't recognize it as the other blackbirds I know of.  I snapped a 
> photo to check it out at home.  That is when I got a bit confused. I 
> took photos of grackles in AZ in April and thought they must have a 
> relative in this area that I wasn't aware of.
> 
> Anyway, you can share these wherever you wish and my email as well if 
> anyone wants to contact me.
> 
> Ted Werth
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