# Common Grackle

**URL:** <https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/common-grackle/30604>\
**Category:** Image Critiques\
**Tags:** birds\
**Created:** [September 22, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/common-grackle/30604 "2022-09-22T16:36:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![terryb](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/terryb/32/39625_2.png) [@terryb](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/terryb)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/common-grackle/30604/1 "2022-09-22T16:36:39Z")

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![Common Grackle](https://images.naturephotographers.network/original/3X/d/a/dab9dae1790f3eb3927894214bf2a031a7e76b64.jpeg)

Though I think of these as being among the most common of birds, I recently read somewhere that their numbers have declined as much as 54 per cent since 1966.

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### Technical Details

Canon 60D, Canon 70-300mm IS USM Zoom, f.5.6, 1/350 sec., ISO 1250. Processed in ACR and PSE 2020 for exposure and cropping. Topaz DeNoise.

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**Author:** ![Keith\_Bauer](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/keith_bauer/32/211_2.png) [@Keith\_Bauer](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Keith_Bauer)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/common-grackle/30604/2 "2022-09-22T18:12:04Z")

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@terryb - I like the green perch as it is a bit different for where I’d expect to see a grackle. That part is pretty cool.

Sadly, I see very little detail in the plumage. I don’t know what you captured in camera, but I’d expect to see far more details.

What’s going on in the middle / top of the back of the bird? Looks like a branch was cloned or something???

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**Author:** ![terryb](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/terryb/32/39625_2.png) [@terryb](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/terryb)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 9:03pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/common-grackle/30604/3 "2022-09-22T21:03:12Z")

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Thanks @Keith_Bauer. Yeah, I attempted to remove a little staub sticking up behind his back.

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**Author:** ![David\_Haynes](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@David\_Haynes](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/David_Haynes)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 9:19pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/common-grackle/30604/4 "2022-09-22T21:19:18Z")

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I agree with Keith about the perch being a bit unusual, at least for my area in Southern California. That’s a nice touch. The image is too centered for my liking and it looks like you’ve cloned out the end of the stick of the right edge of the image so I would go ahead and simply crop that off anyway. Here is what I mean:

 ![_MG_8753-Common Grackle.jpg-cropped](https://images.naturephotographers.network/original/3X/3/6/3629d4e86730b9a4adae27e0f3fc96470e49d4e6.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Allen\_Brooks](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/allen_brooks/32/390_2.png) [@Allen\_Brooks](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Allen_Brooks)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/common-grackle/30604/5 "2022-09-22T21:36:05Z")

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What I like about this image is the viewer gets a clear sense the grackle is reacting to or at something which gives the image a certain immediacy.

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**Author:** ![terryb](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/terryb/32/39625_2.png) [@terryb](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/terryb)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/common-grackle/30604/6 "2022-09-22T23:21:59Z")

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Yeah, I like that @David_Haynes. Thanks

Thanks @Allen_Brooks. That was why I liked it, as well.