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purple grackle

May 3, 2020 by Dave Bonta

Two catbirds are carrying dead grass into a barberry bush. A grackle emerges from a hole in the yard with his yellow thief’s eye.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags catbird, purple grackle

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