Quail Coveys

Two Haiku for our Resident Broods

Hello friends,
This post is very much off-schedule, not to mention, very brief. It is a tiny look at our resident quail coveys—of which there are several in the garden.

Sunday afternoon
an elegant promenade
of pattering quail

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I don’t know how many of my readers have been fortunate enough to watch newly fledged baby quail running around after their parents. It is a sight not to be missed for sheer delight.

One of the coveys recently hatched a whole new brood, and they live mostly in the shelter of a large oleander bush in the garden. At present the chicks are about the size of the bush’s blooms.

Beneath a bush
a sprinkling of petals
new quail chicks

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