{"id":8027,"date":"2013-04-04T05:13:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T11:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=8027"},"modified":"2025-10-30T06:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:14:11","slug":"male-boat-tailed-grackle-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/04\/04\/male-boat-tailed-grackle-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Boat-tailed Grackle portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Boat-tailedBoat-tailed Grackle male – Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/1000, ISO 250, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 260mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Boat-tailed Grackles are very common in Florida and many people consider them a nuisance because they will frequent areas where people leave food and trash around and these birds will scavenge in\u00a0those locations for food.<\/p>\n

I think of how opportunistic Boat-tailed Grackles can be because they have adapted to human presence and will clean up the edible pollution we leave behind while we “recreate”.<\/p>\n

Male Boat-tailed Grackles\u00a0have velvety black feathers that glow in the right light with iridescence purples, blues, teals and greens.<\/p>\n

This male Boat-tailed Grackle posed on top of a sign near the parking lot for the Celery Fields<\/span><\/a> of Sarasota, Florida in January of 2009.<\/p>\n

The area used to be a commercial celery farming operation but is now a great area for Sandhill Cranes in the winter and can be very birdy at times.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

Male Boat-tailed Grackles have velvety black feathers that glow in the right light with iridescence purples, blues, teals and greens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[27,2177,2178,25,2179],"tags":[4004,3813,3483,4781,4142,4779,4780,4062,4046,4782,373],"class_list":["post-8027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-boat-tailed-grackles","category-celery-fields","category-florida","category-sarasota","tag-adult","tag-blackbird","tag-blackbirds","tag-boat-tailed-grackle","tag-close-up","tag-grackle","tag-grackles","tag-male","tag-portrait","tag-quiscalus-major","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