{"id":1547,"date":"2018-10-15T03:56:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T03:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2018-10-15T03:56:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T03:56:23","slug":"little-ravens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2018\/10\/15\/little-ravens\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Ravens."},"content":{"rendered":"

For many years a pair of these birds have lived around and nested in the garden trees, regularly raising two youngsters every season. They have never become as trusting as the magpies, always maintaining a wary distance. Table scraps are regularly put out for them, they keep keen eyes on the feeding table and are down to investigate in a matter of minutes. It was so with some off-cuts of mutton, one of the parents first sampled the offering, and then gathered up the remainder to take to the waiting offspring.<\/p>\n

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Interestingly they also are partial to fruit, orange halves that have been juiced are cleaned out to the pith. They very cleverly place them in the hollow top of a post to make the job easier.<\/p>\n

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For many years a pair of these birds have lived around and nested in the garden trees, regularly raising two youngsters every season. They have never become as trusting as the magpies, always maintaining a wary distance. Table scraps are regularly put out for them, they keep keen eyes on the feeding table and are … Continue reading Little Ravens.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}