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Above and below: A Common Grackle in my backyard near Fort Smallwood, Maryland (5/16/2007).
Below: A juvenile Common Grackle still begging for food from its parents - our yard in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/8/2007).
Below: A female Common Grackle in our yard in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (7/8/2007).
Below: A Common Grackle in Washington, D.C. (2005).
Below: A Bronzed Grackle (Q. q. versicolor) in our yard in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland (10/26/2008). This is the subspecies that breeds generally west of the Appalachians that is the less common migrant and wintering subspecies in Maryland. It was my first of the year, and my earliest sighting of the subspecies in Maryland so far.