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I was promised a gourmet creek experience, not a rocky salad bar. 🐦‍⬛🌿🦉🤙🍁

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A Common Grackle, a large, lanky blackbird standing on a rocky shore next to the Little Etobicoke Creek. The water reflects golds and greens from the nearby shoreline. While they look black from a distance, this male's feathers are actually a shimmering mess of purples and blues that resemble an oil spill in a parking lot. He has bright, pale yellow eyes that give him a perpetually startled or "unhinged" expression, making it look like someone glued googly eyes onto a velvet sock. In some photos, you might see a white film over the eye—that’s his nictitating membrane, a translucent third eyelid he uses for protection, which only adds to his "robot bird" aesthetic. Instead of a beautiful song, grackles make a harsh, mechanical noise that sounds exactly like a rusty gate hinge swinging in the wind.
May 16, 2026 at 3:53 PM