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Quail! Bobwhite!
Aaah, so many things I want to do today.. couldn't fall back asleep for thinking of them.
Then I get up and spy an unusual bird in my yard, and spend the next 2+ hours taking photos and looking up what it could be.
I first noticed it from a lot of bird chirping. It was on the ground while many birds were flying into and away from the little tree it was under. I couldn't figure out if they felt endangered by it and were trying to scare it away, or if they were likewise curious about it like me. In the meantime, I saw mockingbirds, brown thrashers, and cardinals all nearby taking interest in it.
My first thought was grouse! Looking up online, I thought maybe also a quail. I've never seen either of those in person that I can recall. But also the possibility of some kind of juvenile heirloom chicken, since I have or had a neighbor a few houses down from where I used to hear a rooster crowing.
I managed to go outside without scaring it off, and got more photos. It kept walking quickly back and forth along my fence. I began to feel sorry for it. It wants to go somewhere but can't get through the fence. If it is a juvenile, where are its parents? How did it get in my yard!???
Now I've determined it looks exactly like a female bobwhite quail, so it must be one. I also got a short recording of its call, also matching what I found online for a bobwhite quail song.
It also started thundering. So I likely won't be cleaning out my gutters today. But where will the quail go if it storms?
Then I get up and spy an unusual bird in my yard, and spend the next 2+ hours taking photos and looking up what it could be.
I first noticed it from a lot of bird chirping. It was on the ground while many birds were flying into and away from the little tree it was under. I couldn't figure out if they felt endangered by it and were trying to scare it away, or if they were likewise curious about it like me. In the meantime, I saw mockingbirds, brown thrashers, and cardinals all nearby taking interest in it.
My first thought was grouse! Looking up online, I thought maybe also a quail. I've never seen either of those in person that I can recall. But also the possibility of some kind of juvenile heirloom chicken, since I have or had a neighbor a few houses down from where I used to hear a rooster crowing.
I managed to go outside without scaring it off, and got more photos. It kept walking quickly back and forth along my fence. I began to feel sorry for it. It wants to go somewhere but can't get through the fence. If it is a juvenile, where are its parents? How did it get in my yard!???
Now I've determined it looks exactly like a female bobwhite quail, so it must be one. I also got a short recording of its call, also matching what I found online for a bobwhite quail song.
It also started thundering. So I likely won't be cleaning out my gutters today. But where will the quail go if it storms?
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It's not vinegar, though, just some kind of... no you know what? I'll go check. (iofiofoihfioioijo)
Okay so the ingredients are just water, quail eggs, acidity regulator: citric acid, preservative: potassium metabisulphite.
I dunno if we have quail here in the pacific northwet (not a typo) or not, but I've seen hummingbirds, seagulls, herons, and turkey vultures around here. Once saw an honest to goodness raven, too! Up close and personal, no more than five feet away from me, so I could tell it wasn't just a crow. They're HUGE, ravens are! And their beaks have a different kind of feather pattern around them that's distinctive from crows.
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But I get it that mini-eggs would be appealing to non-vegans.
Looking at crow vs raven territory maps, it looks like ravens don't even occasionally come to visit in this area of SC though they're not too far away in the Appalachian mountains.
After that one day, I didn't see the quail again. I hope a cat didn't get it. I still wonder if maybe that neighbor with the rooster has quail too, and if that's where it came from after all.