{"id":532,"date":"2015-02-06T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T16:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2015-03-10T16:14:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T21:14:27","slug":"common-grackle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/common-grackle\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Grackle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Common Grackle<\/strong> \u00a0(Code 1) \u00a06 Feb 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>Area<\/strong>: Locally common to abundant migrant and summer resident, uncommon winter visitor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yard<\/strong>: Fairly common in spring and fall, less common summer and uncommon winter visitor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Audio:<\/strong> Recorded 10 March 2015 by OldBird21c mic as small grackle flock briefly visited feeders (Northern Cardinal singing in foreground).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/COGR-10-March-2015.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/COGR-10-March-2015.png?resize=500%2C73\" alt=\"COGR 10 March 2015\" width=\"500\" height=\"73\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/COGR-10-March-2015.png?resize=1024%2C150&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/COGR-10-March-2015.png?resize=300%2C44&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/COGR-10-March-2015.png?resize=800%2C117&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/COGR-10-March-2015.png?w=1217&amp;ssl=1 1217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-532-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/COGR-10-March-2015.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/COGR-10-March-2015.mp3\">http:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/COGR-10-March-2015.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Sightings:<\/strong> First of year (FOY&#8211;below) was a bird that hid in an oak tree near the sparrow slick until the other birds cleared out, then it dropped down to feed on the seed for a few moments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSCN9398.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-533\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSCN9398.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"DSCN9398\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSCN9398.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSCN9398.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSCN9398.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSCN9398.jpg?w=1500 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSCN9417.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-534\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSCN9417.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"DSCN9417\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSCN9417.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSCN9417.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSCN9417.jpg?resize=800%2C600&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DSCN9417.jpg?w=1500 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Grackle \u00a0(Code 1) \u00a06 Feb 2015 Area: Locally common to abundant migrant and summer resident, uncommon winter visitor. Yard: Fairly common in spring and fall, less common summer and uncommon winter visitor. Audio: Recorded 10 March 2015 by OldBird21c &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/common-grackle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Blr3-8A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backyardbigyear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}