When I took this photo, I thought I had taken a picture of a California Scrub Jay with an acorn in its beak.
When I looked at the image on my computer, however, I saw that this Scrub Jay had actually collected two acorns in its beak. (It reminded me of a dog I knew who could carry two tennis balls in its mouth…and kept trying to get a third.)
Some jays (the Eurasian Jay, for example) can carry acorns in their gullet. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find anything about California Scrub Jays doing so. Their limits seems to be about three in the beak. I’ll be on the lookout for that.
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(This photo is from the Archives–November 12, 2020. I had not yet learned the value of shooting RΑW, so I wasn’t able to process this image as much as I might have liked.)