Well, in our newly acquired hobby of birdwatching, we are now seeing a lot of quail coming to visit.
Saw these in the back yard. At first we were like "what are those birds?" and then I looked and told 2nd Man "I think those are quail". I went out there and zoomed in to get a closer up picture...
The color is a bit off than what they were. They were more of a brown color, but it was early in the day and they had moved over to a shaded area but sure enough, we have quail.
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Here is a great photo of the common quail in our part of Texas, it is called the Northern Bobwhite quail. It was fun to watch them.
We would love to attract more of them to our property. From what we've read, they are mostly a ground dwelling type of bird.
Anyone have any quail advice?
Quail love brush piles to live in and hide in. The more brush piles you have around, the more quail you might have. We have one big pile and there is always 20-30 quail in and about the pile. Lots of fun to watch. If you look closely, when there is a flock around, there is always one up high somewhere keeping watch over them.
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