Quail – 鵪鶉
A quail! A lot of quails!! Seeing these lovely wild creatures in my backyard is amazing!
A covey of California Quails
The California Quail is a round soccer ball of a bird with a gray breast, intricately scaled underparts, and a curious, forward-drooping head plume. They are plump, short-necked game birds with a small head and bill. Both sexes have a comma-shaped topknot of feathers projecting forward from the forehead, longer in males than females.
A male and a female Quails
Often seen scratching at the ground in large groups or dashing forward on blurred legs, I was never able to capture them on film with a good photo shot. Today is different because there are quite a bit of spill of seeds on the ground from our newly refilled bird feeder. The birds are simply ignoring my camera clicking at them nonstop …
A Blue Jay eating with Quails
Lucky quails or luck me?!:-)
Two Quail Brothers
Nice Fez caps on the birds. They look little Faberge eggs.
Thanks!
How cute!
They are, aren’t they? Always a pleasure to see wild animals in the wild…
The Quails are fantastic. They look like well fed aristocrats with well coiffured top knots or expensive headdresses.
LOL! If these quails can read, they would much appreciate your compliments.:-) The most loving sight has to be a mommy quail with an army of her newborns dashing across road. I hope to capture some on films in my near future.
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Lovely pics there. Thanks for popping into my blog which is diverse in topics, no single theme.
Mine has no theme, neither. Whatever interests me at the moment… But I do love to see little wild animals like birds and quails and hares…. Happy blogging!
Some great pictures. If you need to know anything about quail, have a look at my blog for the answers.
Thank you!! Will visit your site shortly… Thank you for stopping by.
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