I heard little "ah!" calls mixed in with laser gun noises, and so when I saw that anglerfish-like feather dangling off its face, I was 100% sure it was a quail!

#CaliforniaQuail #quails #birbs #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #birdwatching #BirdPhotography

We open the door and Mother Winter beckons, but the cat #quails, shrinking back from Mother Winter's extended hand. He shakes the cold preemptively from his paws.

"Come," Mother Winter croons, but the cat flattens his ears and backs away. We close the door and the cat regards it balefully. Where is Master Autumn or Lady Summer? Where is Baby Spring.

"Gone for now," Mother Winter whispers from the other side of the door.

#wss366 #microfiction

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

Photographer - Tom Woltjer

#Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Quorbs #GambelsQuails #Quails

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.

#Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Quorbs #Quails #KingQuails

If somebody (me) would like to make a little separate account for posting very short videos of my #quails, what fedi platform would I use, and, ideally even what instance?

Is this more like a pixelfed thing? or even here on mastodon (don't want to weigh too heavy on any unprepared server)? wtf is loops? are loops and pixelfed evil? HOW evil? help?