I was working in the yard one day when I heard some soft peeping. I turned around and saw quantities of quail (parents and endless babies) on our porch steps.
They were heading from one side of the yard to the other, you see, and the porch was just ... in the way. So they climbed the steps, scurried across the porch, and jumped off the other side.
I think there were four adults and upwards of two dozen half-grown babies, still in the soft peeping stage. I couldn't even begin to get them all in the same photo, unfortunately.
The parent birds shepherded their offspring through the yard and out the other side.
(These are not photos of the same birds. These are separate photos of different parts of the group. As mentioned, there were quantities of quail.)
They slipped through the wire yard fence and disappeared down the slope. Just one of those trivial little interludes for which I was glad to have my camera on hand.
