I gave the one-year-old chicks some Hoawa capsules today. They were all down to investigate right away and they grabbed a couple capsules to take up to their hack box tops to make some attempts to open them. For a while they were all making quite a ruckus, running around, chasing the rolling hoawa fruits like a little soccer team.
Then Po Noe grabbed a Hoawa and brought it over to the water dish, where she dunked it and began pounding on the capsule while Ikaika watched her. The tableau was happening at a low angle from my perspective from the door window (with supposedly one-way glass) so I was on my tiptoes trying to watch her progress. Ikaika somehow guessed that I was there and flew up to perch on the door handle and peer back at me. Because I was watching Po Noe so intently, my face was very close to the glass. And because Ikaika is his precious self, his face was completely smashed up against the window, his breath fogging the glass. So for a while we were eyeball to eyeball, although I was pretty much ignoring his cries for attention.
None of the crows got the capsules open, once again, but a great time was had by all and when I left them they were all still industriously working on succeeding.