Grackles
Quiscalus
quiscula forage on the ground. Food items might include seeds, acorns,
fruits, and garbage. In summer their diet includes grasshoppers, beetles,
caterpillars, spiders, mollusks, fish, frogs, salamanders, and mice.
Maybe this Grackle was so intent on diet he did not
notice the Painted Turtle passing nearby on the shore of the pond.