{"id":14773,"date":"2018-08-01T19:16:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T00:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14773"},"modified":"2018-08-13T07:36:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T12:36:07","slug":"grackle-eating-a-clam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14773","title":{"rendered":"Grackle Eating a Clam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14775\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180801_156991.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14775\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180801_156991-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Grackle Eating a Clam\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14775\" data-wp-pid=\"14775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180801_156991-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180801_156991-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180801_156991-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180801_156991-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180801_156991-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/img_20180801_156991.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grackle Eating a Clam<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We went swimming early this afternoon and then I dug in the sand and made a drip castle. After showering, Cathy and I walked on the beach. I was surprised that the castle was still there. The tide hadn&#8217;t come in yet but no one had stepped on it. On our walk we saw a few common grackles (<em>Quiscalus quiscula<\/em>) just above the surf pulling up clams after each wave. It&#8217;s not really surprising that they&#8217;ve learned to enjoy clams. It&#8217;s just that we don&#8217;t think of grackles as shore birds, skipping around at the top of the surf along with willets and sand pipers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went swimming early this afternoon and then I dug in the sand and made a drip castle. After showering, Cathy and I walked on the beach. I was surprised that the castle was still there. The tide hadn&#8217;t come in yet but no one had stepped on it. On our walk we saw a &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14773\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[157,48,61,840,839],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14773"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14779,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14773\/revisions\/14779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}