qualiling

[muriel story <>]

This morning I saw a quail in my garden in Cook. It was pottering around in a patch of hayed off Windmill grass, near dense groundcover. I stole around the side of the house to get a closer look and almost ran into it at the corner. It turned around,  disappeared into the shrubs and went under the fence into some scrubby native vegetation behind my place where I could not locate it again.

Not surprisingly Birds of Canberra Gardens indicates that quail are not found as garden birds. 

It looked like a Brown Quail, being a fairly uniform golden brown.  I’m familiar with the Button Quail from Mt Ainslie and it wasn’t one of those. It wasn’t a King Quail.  It seemed a bit too dark over all for a Stubble Quail.

Besides the unlikely location, quail i.d is open to challenge. Has anyone else seen a quail in Cook? Can anyone offer a comment?

Muriel