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Allie Irwin's avatar

We can watch great-tailed grackles in the YV Home Depot/Walmart parking lots also. Love your stories. 😊

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Kat Talley-Jones's avatar

I have to run an errand there--I'll check out the grackles!

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De Karlen's avatar

You should write a book! Seriously.

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Jesse Sublett's avatar

Thanks for using my painting, Kat! I am honored to have one of my many Grackle paintings in this publication, and doubly thankful that now I'm aware of The Desert Trumpet and its invaluable coverage of current events. I had to smile at the derogatory comment "trash birds." What shape will the revenge visited upon this guy take? We can only imagine. It's also very possible that someday he'll experience an epiphany when then sun hits the sheen of a strutting great-tailed grackle and a neon palette of colors appears and he realizes the beauty and vitality of this fascinating creature.

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