Quail train

on guard Mr. Burns!

The baby quail have hatched! and papa quail (Mr. Burns, yes pop culture has invaded our naming of the quail couple) is on guard and doing his job very well...

this family of around 15 little ones has been spotted up and down the trails here at commonweal; father keeping guard, mom (Mrs. burns... obviously) and babies scurrying around eating anything that looks good... including some of our newly planted seeds. 

that's allowed... so its ok..

babies.... fox?! what??! where!??

here is a close up of mom and baby, the little ones being no more then maybe a size of a slightly larger golf ball.

mom, dad on guard, and a few little ones up front through the onions

Although there are lots of bachelor quail, and a good handful of couples, these are the only babies spotted yet- they tend to stay concentrated on the west side of wish creek, and WE THINK they live up around the garden pirate villas (again that is our nick name for the interns thanks to the last course that joined us for a two week permaculture intensive.) 

the villas are all nestled in the north west corner of the fence line where there is great habitat for the quail, birds, lots of mystery rustling at night and also foxes... hmmm watch out  for that fox is a quick one...

mrs. burns and babies

but so far so good, its close to the first week and it seems Mr. and Mrs. Burns are doing a great job.

  and the course that just joined us was excited to see the baby quail, and they all just missed them... so here are some shots for you guys.

till soon, we will keep the posts for how the quail are growing up, and hopefully nature takes its course not too brutally... we shall see though.. there are theories on how many of around the 14 or so will survive.