grackles

There was a whole flock of grackles (incidentally, a group of grackles is referred to as a ‘plague of grackles’) in my backyard one summer day, there must have been a hundred of them. I took a bunch of pictures of them hanging around my little bird sanctuary. This shot is just a lucky one, and I think silhouettes, in their simplicity, are such a powerful visual statement. The hole in the upper left-hand corner is actually where there was a hornet’s nest embedded in the wall a year earlier.