Join the discussion! For rules visit: https://kymkemp.com/commenting-rules

Comments system how-to: https://wpdiscuz.com/community/postid/10599/

Subscribe
Notify of
guest

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

23 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
max
Guest
max
14 years ago

What beautiful coloring.

max
Guest
max
14 years ago

What beautiful coloring.

Ernie's Place
Guest
14 years ago

I wonder what the Quail did for dust baths before the whiteman made dust for them?

Ernie's Place
Guest
14 years ago

I wonder what the Quail did for dust baths before the whiteman made dust for them?

Carol
Guest
Carol
14 years ago

I think there has always been dust for them.

Carol
Guest
Carol
14 years ago

I think there has always been dust for them.

olmanriver
Guest
olmanriver
14 years ago

I have a steady stream of quail on my back porch so I am blessed with lots of ten feet or less views of their Magnificent coloring. Often the male will perch on the arm of a chair and watch over his feeding companion. If I have no food out, they cross the thirty feet of deck on a daily pilgrimage to …..the greywater. The quail and the small birds and the turtle doves will co-exist whilst feeding, the doves being the most sensitive to my prescence. The turtle doves easily startle and fly squeekingly away in seeming terror, but actually just fly into pine branchs a short distance away, ready to come right back.

olmanriver
Guest
olmanriver
14 years ago

I have a steady stream of quail on my back porch so I am blessed with lots of ten feet or less views of their Magnificent coloring. Often the male will perch on the arm of a chair and watch over his feeding companion. If I have no food out, they cross the thirty feet of deck on a daily pilgrimage to …..the greywater. The quail and the small birds and the turtle doves will co-exist whilst feeding, the doves being the most sensitive to my prescence. The turtle doves easily startle and fly squeekingly away in seeming terror, but actually just fly into pine branchs a short distance away, ready to come right back.

Jen
Guest
Jen
14 years ago

Just gorgeous. The Mountain Quail were out in force when we were up in the hills last weekend. I love them. They’re so pretty.

Jen
Guest
Jen
14 years ago

Just gorgeous. The Mountain Quail were out in force when we were up in the hills last weekend. I love them. They’re so pretty.

Ernie's Place
Guest
14 years ago

I hate to admit that I don’t know this, but when the wild doves fly and make that whistling squeak, is that their wings making the noise or is it their startled voice.

olmanriver
Guest
olmanriver
14 years ago
Reply to  Ernie's Place

or both?

olmanriver
Guest
olmanriver
14 years ago
Reply to  Ernie's Place

“When taking off, their wings make a sharp whistling or whinnying.” Doves can also clap their wings like a rock pidgeon. Huh!
That site also tells us of the “perch coo” of the bachelor males… those soft coo-oos followed by two or three louder coos. “You can often hear paired males give the three-parted “nest call” while nest-building: a coo-OO-oo, highest in the middle. Females sometimes call ohr ohr while sitting on the nest.”

olmanriver
Guest
olmanriver
14 years ago
Reply to  olmanriver

What’s strue fer down under is strue for here.

Staff
Member
14 years ago
Reply to  olmanriver

Thank you for doing that research!

Ernie's Place
Guest
14 years ago

I hate to admit that I don’t know this, but when the wild doves fly and make that whistling squeak, is that their wings making the noise or is it their startled voice.

olmanriver
Guest
olmanriver
14 years ago
Reply to  Ernie's Place

or both?

olmanriver
Guest
olmanriver
14 years ago
Reply to  Ernie's Place

“When taking off, their wings make a sharp whistling or whinnying.” Doves can also clap their wings like a rock pidgeon. Huh!
That site also tells us of the “perch coo” of the bachelor males… those soft coo-oos followed by two or three louder coos. “You can often hear paired males give the three-parted “nest call” while nest-building: a coo-OO-oo, highest in the middle. Females sometimes call ohr ohr while sitting on the nest.”

olmanriver
Guest
olmanriver
14 years ago
Reply to  olmanriver

What’s strue fer down under is strue for here.

Staff
Member
14 years ago
Reply to  olmanriver

Thank you for doing that research!

archiearchive FCD
Guest
14 years ago

A perfect portrait. The quail here are so shy. With reason – they are a delicacy for the locals 🙂

@ Ernie, here in Oz the noise made by a startled dove or pigeon is from the wings.

Staff
Member
14 years ago

I always thought it was their voice but now I’m going to have to pay more attention.

Staff
Member
14 years ago

I always thought it was their voice but now I’m going to have to pay more attention.