never seen one 😔 guess we don't have those here in germany?

You did an excellent job capturing their color. At a glance they look solid black, but when you look closely at pictures, you see the subtle colors and iridescence.

An individual grackle can be quite pretty. Especially the males with the irredescent black coats.

A group of grackles on the other hand is a fucking loud annoying mobile shit producing cloud. Areas actually have to fire off canon blanks to get them to move as a flock can contain hundreds to a thousand, all squawking and shitting everywhere. Little fuckers…. okay, done ranting.

Nice! I've got grackles in my yard. "Common" grackle, my ass. They're so pretty. But it's hard to capture the way their feathers change colors so much.