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Coming Soon: Great-tailed Grackle Breeding Season

By Mia McPherson|February 21st, 2023|Categories: Birds, Great-tailed Grackles, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, bath, blackbirds, breeding display, close up, display, displaying, duo, feather, female, grackle, grackles, Great-tailed Grackle, Head-Up, intensely, looking, male, park, portrait, preening-tail, Quiscalus mexicanus, Ruff-Out, solo, spring, urban, winter|

On two of my most recent walks I have seen Great-tailed Grackles. Seeing them reminded me that Great-tailed Grackle breeding season is coming soon.

Spring Male Great-tailed Grackle Portraits

By Mia McPherson|April 9th, 2022|Categories: Birds, Great-tailed Grackles, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, Bill-Up, blackbird, blackbirds, breeding season, close up, display, displaying, grackle, grackles, Great-tailed Grackle, Head-Up, male, park, portrait, Quiscalus mexicanus, Ruff-Out, Salt Lake County, spring, urban, Utah|

Yesterday morning I had fun taking spring male Great-tailed Grackle portraits because these males were displaying and not paying attention to me or my camera.