Hello Michael,
I got the best photos of this bird and it shows the brown real good in the photos and there are many .The scans are darker than the photos.And whenyou going on to OBOL there are many photos posted.On is on a website as:http://birdsofoklahoma.net/Gtailgrack 003.htm this bird looks much like our bird in Auburn.Michael Patterson got an expensive Website on Gracles created and where birders voice there opinions..

Ruth
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Willison
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 12:48 AM
Subject: Grackle Mystery


Tweeters,

I am seeing a lot of talk about the concern of how black or dark this bird is for it to be a G. T. Grackle. Of all the pictures I have seen of this bird on the internet I haven't seen one yet that does this bird justice as to the color I believe it more closely has. Maybe I just haven't seen all the pics yet that are out there on the web, but I observed this bird for a half hour at as near as 5 feet from me on the ground in the parking lot. It is not black at all in the head, neck, or breast. It is brown. Much contrasting to the darker blackish back and rest of body including the tail. I also believed this bird to have a much larger/longer tail than the Brewer's in the area and although I will agree to some arguments that it is not as keel shaped as we might expect, it does give the jizz of a molting grackle tail especially in flight. I'd be interesting in seeing what others who have seen this bird think about color! ations as well.

Michael Willison

sendtomichael at hotmail.com




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