Covey of Northern Bobwhite quail

Northern Bobwhite quail
Had the great opportunity to have a covey of Northern Bobwhite Quail hang out close to home last year. They spent the better part of 6 months, well into the winter. The covey had maybe 30 birds on the original sighting and on the last sighting in February their numbers had diminished to just 5 birds. At one point we had 60 inches of snow and they would come running when I would fill the feeders. Got so towards the end they would come to within several feet of me. Very sad to say I haven’t seen or heard them in almost a year now.

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Great shots! I love these birds.

nice shots, I use to hear one around the house but that was years ago only one year. I hope yours show back up

It's too bad that these birds are not as adaptive to nature as others. We've all but lost our wild coveys here in SC to predators. Well done.

very nice set