{"id":100909,"date":"2022-03-18T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=100909"},"modified":"2022-03-18T05:23:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T11:23:00","slug":"male-great-tailed-grackle-whatchu-lookin-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2022\/03\/18\/male-great-tailed-grackle-whatchu-lookin-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Great-tailed Grackle – Whatchu Lookin’ At?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Great-tailedGreat-tailed Grackle male in a pine close up \u2013 Nikon D500, tripod mounted, f10, 1\/800, ISO 500, +0.7 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

When I photographed this Great-tailed Grackle male in a pine yesterday I was torn between focusing on taking photos of him and laughing out loud. I did both.<\/p>\n

The male Great-tailed Grackles have been putting on a show at a pond close to where I live. There is a lot of posturing, bill pointing, and more than a few have been walking around with their chests all puffed up. It is Great-tailed Grackle breeding season here in northern Utah and the males are certainly exhibiting behaviors that indicate that it is.<\/p>\n

While I photographed other birds yesterday morning it was the grackles that kept drawing my attention. They make a lot of sounds. Loud sounds. Raucous sounds.\u00a0 The grackles are hard to ignore.<\/p>\n

When I saw this male Great-tailed Grackle in the pine there was another male in the tree with him. The other male was mostly hidden from my view so I focused on this guy. Then I got this look from him for three frames and the phrase “Whatchu lookin’ at” came to my mind which made me laugh.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t help myself. Viewing this image on my larger screen at home made me laugh all over again.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Great-tailed Grackle photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I photographed this Great-tailed Grackle male in a pine yesterday I was torn between focusing on taking photos of him and laughing out loud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,426,709,26],"tags":[4004,3813,3483,4073,4142,779,4779,4780,2429,4062,10698,5540,4046,4778,4018,4427,8018,373],"class_list":["post-100909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-great-tailed-grackles","category-salt-lake-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-blackbird","tag-blackbirds","tag-breeding-season","tag-close-up","tag-displaying","tag-grackle","tag-grackles","tag-great-tailed-grackle","tag-male","tag-park","tag-pine","tag-portrait","tag-quiscalus-mexicanus","tag-sky","tag-tree","tag-urban","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t