With its sky-blue bill and facial skin reminiscent of candy corn, I instantly recognize this handsome, flat-heated, black-capped fellow—even as I zip down Highway 281
Tag: Creatures Among Us
The elegant raptor, its chest adorned in alternating white and cloud-gray scallops, sat on a bare willow branch along the boardwalk one December afternoon at
Its upper bill a massive catclaw, its gaze penetrating, the perching osprey swiveled as it scoured the Laguna Madre for ripples and the glint of
Grackles—people either love them, or they decidedly do not. From first glimpse of a sleek, iridescent, purplish-hued great-tailed grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus), I have been smitten.