Look, I could have put this all in one album. But then again, I could instead milk it out into a dozen posts and make this place look more happening than it actually is. That's engagement, kiddos!
These guys — and gals — were everywhere where we were. Here's a female, although we saw a lot more of the males:
This is the best I got with the thrice-damned subject tracking. It seemed to think the texture of this anti-erosion fabric stuff was much more interesting than the lively and highly contrastful bird right spang in the middle of the frame.
Anyway, these are apparently not grackles. You could have fooled me until I looked it up, since the males have a similar kind of shiny iridescent feathers (or they would do, if the sun came out at any point) as well as the signature crazy eyeball. Euphagus cyanocephalus is however a bit smaller and not quite so shiny. I took a lot of pictures of these guys because they are always just making such a face. I won't post most of them, though, because you can only stretch out a joke so far. However...
And skipping ahead a bit to a different day, since we have just about reached the end of my report about schlepping through the snow:
"You got somethin' to say, pal? Well, do ya?"
