Grackles are Funny

This time of year, there appears to be seven main bird types on Hatteras Island: seagulls (though very very few), sanderlings, pelicans (we're lousy with pelicans. . . I've never seen so many pelicans), Canada geese, herons, mocking birds and grackles. Grackles are by far the funniest. They have a really weird carriage and gait when walking--very upright, very southern gentleman, a little foghorn leghorn. I can't stop staring at them on the beach or taking millions of pictures.