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Steve’s Bird Of The Day #31.
Hello again! As mentioned yesterday, here is the purple headed variety of the common grackle. Otherwise these two grackles look the same and are always together. They breed from the gulf coast to northern Canada. They are 11 to 13 inches (28 to 34cm) long, but they do have long tails making up a good portion of that length. They like to do something called “anting” where they lay on the ground next to an ant colony and allow the ants to crawl all over them. The ants release formic acid on the bird which helps to repel lice and other insects. Other birds will do this too. The oldest recorded grackle (not in captivity) was 23 years old, so they can live a long time. But their numbers have decreased by about 60% in the last 40 years. Have a wonderful day everyone and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
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Thank You Everyone!
Hi everyone! We did it! We have crossed another goal that I set a while back, that is we now have over 900 followers! Wow, that’s amazing to me. I know I have seen some blogs start up and they hit 900 or more followers in just a few months and that’s great, and it has taken me a little longer than that, over 3 years in fact, but that’s okay.
Muffin and I are very happy with these numbers I can assure you on that! Muffin was jumping around like a kangaroo after I told her the news. Honest. She really was. Though it might have also been the blueberry maple cupcake. She absolutely loves those things.
Of course I do as well. I would have been jumping around myself, but I’m not allowed to do such things at the moment. I don’t think my doctor would be too happy to hear about me doing such a thing. And I know my back would also not be happy with it.
And I need my back to settle down so I can get out walking again, hopefully soon, though it won’t be soon enough to take advantage of the nice weather coming this weekend. Oh well, there will be more nice days coming.
So, from Muffin and I, plus all the other critters around here, thank you so very much for joining us here at Steve’s Country!! I hope you will all continue to enjoy all the stories and photos each day! Have a fantastic day everyone and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
©2021 Steve McLeod.
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