{"id":2078,"date":"2026-09-25T11:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:27:23","slug":"chickadee-caching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/?p=2078","title":{"rendered":"Chickadee caching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"2077\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/?attachment_id=2077\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_4882.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1600,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"img_4882\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_4882-819x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_4882-819x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-2077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_4882-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_4882-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_4882-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_4882.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Black-capped Chickadee: Laudholm Farms, Wells, Maine, USA, September 2026 \u2014 I am pretty sure what we have here is a sequence of a chickadee caching a bayberry in the lichen on a tree trunk. Chickadees eat bayberry. Chickadees cache food randomly. This looks like a bayberry. Therefore. Sony a7CR with Sony FE 100-400 f5.6-8 at 400mm (600mm in APS-C mode and cropped to about 1550mm effective field of view (4mp) so a very heavy crop.) My custom birds and wildlife mode. Processed in Photomator. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black-capped Chickadee: Laudholm Farms, Wells, Maine, USA, September 2026 \u2014 I am pretty sure what we have here is a sequence of a chickadee caching a bayberry in the lichen on a tree trunk. Chickadees eat bayberry. Chickadees cache food randomly. This looks like a bayberry. Therefore. Sony a7CR with Sony FE 100-400 f5.6-8 at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/?p=2078\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chickadee caching<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p522q5-xw","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/psnp_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}