California Quail for (belated) Valentine's Day! 🤎 🤍 🖤

1. (top left) A strutting male. Photographer - Nancy Johnston

2. (top right) A lovely quail couple. Photographer - T. Grey

3. (lower left) A male showing off his very pretty missus. Photographer - Jerry Ting

4. (lower right) A male quail showing off just how much he can borb. Photographer unknown.

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I'm loving on quails these day! 🤎 🤍 🩶 🖤

I didn't realize that the California Quail is the state bird of California. Like... duh? 🤣

Here are two lovely quorbs. The first is a female, her picture taken by a Bird Buddy feeder.

The second is a stately male showing off his quorbness and beautiful black plume. I do not know the photographer.

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Gambel's Quails: Mom and Pop and too many chicks to count! 🤎 🤍 🖤 🩶 💛

Photographer - Tom Woltjer

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Quail Day! 😊 🥰 😘

Here we have King Quails... although wouldn't the female then be a Queen Quail? 🤔 They do have other names, like the Chinese Painted Quail or Blue-Breasted Quail (despite the fact that only the male has a blue breast). The female is bigger than the male, and they don't have the head plumes that many other quails sport. But they are gorgeous!

1. Female (L) -- Nils Soderman

2. Male (top R) -- André Karwath

3. Female and Male (bottom R) -- photographer unknown.

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If you would like to check out Replacements, Ltd., where I got my coffee pot, cup, and saucer, here is the web addy. I've linked to the Quail Blue page, but you might like to go to the home page instead to see all the other wonderful things they have. Some items are very expensive (and I can only wish I could afford them), but I managed to get my three pieces quite reasonably.

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https://www.replacements.com/china-furnivals-quail-blue-round-quail-backstamp/c/27513

While looking for more #Quails I came across a company calls Replacements that fills in discontinued designs in your china and silver and crystal and all kinds of wonderful things. I purchased the following two items because I COULDN'T RESIST! The design is called Quail Blue by Furnivals, and I got a 4-cup coffee pot plus a cup and saucer. Here they are.

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How can you look at this [female] California Quail and not fall in love? Such a beautiful example of avian borbulosity, with that cute little plume on top. 🟤 ⚪ ⚫

Photographer - John Caddick

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