APR 8, birdlore: boat-tailed grackles

a) Reprise of material posted on April 8 in previous years ...

2020: limerick variations, the sixth line (poem)
2021: American satire, tweetstorm (poem) 
2022: numbers and counting, octane (poem)
2023: poets' corner, rhotic-poet school (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 8, 2024): 

  

Authors' Note: The glossy black male and the much-smaller tawny female are often seen hanging around seaside locales near urban marshes in southern US towns. The characteristic call — a high-pitched jeeb or jeeb-jeeb, not a crow-like caw, gives them a simplified name. Undisturbed by close human contact, and with a penchant for grabbing and enjoying human snack-foods, they are likely to become a more pervasive and irritating pest.

male in flight

female, smaller, and with tawny coloring holds onto a treat
that she discovered near the boardwalk