{"id":2236,"date":"2007-08-22T11:21:06","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T17:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/avis-habilis\/"},"modified":"2007-08-22T11:21:06","modified_gmt":"2007-08-22T17:21:06","slug":"avis-habilis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/avis-habilis\/","title":{"rendered":"Avis Habilis"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>I&#8217;ve written about the peanut-loving scrub jays in our backyard (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/m-jay-h\/\">mjh\u2019s blog \u2014 m jay h<\/a>). This week, I watched a young grackle use a respectable level of ingenuity. Following the lead of the scrub jays, the grackle landed on the patio table and picked up a nut. It pecked at the shell briefly. Then it carried the shell over to a bowl of water and dropped it in. It pulled the shell out, shook it, dropped it in again. The grackle repeated this a few times until the shell began to open. Voila! This may explain the empty shells in the birdbath. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mjhinton\/1204554352\/\" title=\"smart grackle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1297\/1204554352_d3c9acc753.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"268\" alt=\"smart grackle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Two more photos with this one on Flickr.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about the peanut-loving scrub jays in our backyard (mjh\u2019s blog \u2014 m jay h). This week, I watched a young grackle use a respectable level of ingenuity. Following the lead of the scrub jays, the grackle landed on the patio table and picked up a nut. It pecked at the shell briefly. Then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/avis-habilis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Avis Habilis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}