Quail central
Since I’ve started filling the bird feeder on our deck (I feed only over the winter), we’ve become “quail central.”
The greedy things will literally climb over each other, gobbling the seeds.
California quail are handsome birds. They’re also very wary, keeping a watchful eye out for predators. We have goshawks around here (see here and here), and those aerial predators will make an occasional foray nearby – once, one actually swooped through the porch! – so I can’t blame the quail for being cautious. (The faint green lights you see on the photo below are reflections of our Christmas tree lights.)
Do you see the reddish-brown smear in the upper-left corner of the photo below? It’s a goshawk juuuust flying away from a tree opposite our porch. If I’d snapped the photo half a second sooner, the whole bird would be visible.
Interestingly, one of the quails’ favorite hangouts is a pile of brush we piled nearby, waiting for the chipper. The quail have adopted it as a refuge.
At all hours of the day, you can see the birds hanging around, inside and outside.
I can’t blame them. It offers superb protection against predators of both land and sky.
Still, the quail are not completely dependent on the brush pile. The quail will often congregate across the road in some blackberry brambles, which offers – arguably – even better protection against predators, since the brambles have thorns.
I often see coveys of quail on the road exceeding four or five dozen, more than will fit in any one photograph.
No wonder the goshawks are hanging around. The bird feeder isn’t just supplying food for the quail. It’s also supplying food for the goshawks. Win-win.
Source: http://www.rural-revolution.com/2025/01/quail-central.html
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