This is an anting blue jay. What is anting, you ask? Simply when a bird (typically a jay) lands on an ant mound, the ants get into their feathers and clean their feathers pretty well. And, hey, he might just eat some of the ants while he's feeling hungry. A pretty good deal for him, not so much for the ants. Its like going through a carwash and then eating the carwasher.
Anyways, I thought it was an interesting phenomenon, donc, Voila! Hope everyone had a good labor day.
I love learning stuff like this.
ReplyDeleteIt's the little things like this that keep me aware of how cool our natural world is.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Claire and I were discussing how much we missed your remarks in the lab.