{"id":6608,"date":"2015-05-28T21:19:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T04:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/05\/28\/gambels-quail-spring-chicks\/"},"modified":"2015-05-28T21:19:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T04:19:39","slug":"gambels-quail-spring-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/05\/28\/gambels-quail-spring-chicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambel&#8217;s Quail Spring Chicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/qc2.jpg' title='Gambel\u2019s Quail Spring Chicks'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/qc2.jpg' alt='Gambel\u2019s Quail Spring Chicks' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spring has sprung loose a lot of new wildfowl near our Arizona home. A breeding pair (or two) brought their brood(s) up on the hill behind the RV drive where I have my bird feeders. There are always a lot of seeds that make their way to the ground from the feeders and these birds were there to take advantage of the spillage.<\/p>\n<p>The two birds in the image were with a group of several little guys being herded around by a couple of adult quail. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gambel%27s_quail\">Wikipedia<\/a>, females usually lay 10 to 12 eggs at a time. When the chicks hatch, they leave the nest within hours and follow their parents as they forage.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always so cute when these little chicks are seen scurrying here and there behind or in front of the parents. I hope to have more photos of them going to and fro this late spring. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring has sprung loose a lot of new wildfowl near our Arizona home. A breeding pair (or two) brought their brood(s) up on the hill behind&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,47,10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-environment","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}