Yesterday, I bought some wild animal food at the local variety store. We went to the new house and distributed it in the little wash area next to the house where we previously saw some quail.
Today, we went back to take some electrical fixtures to the house and there were a dozen or more of these little guys in the wash having a good old quail party! Click on the image to enlarge.
From Wikipedia:
The Gambel’s Quail, ‘Callipepla gambelii’, is a small ground-dwelling bird in the New World quail family. It inhabits the desert regions of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and Sonora; also New Mexico-border Chihuahua and the Colorado River region of Baja California. The Gambel’s quail is named in honor of William Gambel, a 19th century naturalist and explorer of the Southwestern United States.
