On 20/1/07 I was birding the area behind the telegraph station and in getting a
good luck at female brown songlark I came up slowly to base of acacia bush.
Fortunately there were a pair of little button quail who didn't realise that I
was there and I was able to observe them at close range feeding. The female
had beautiful pink blush and a black line near her ear. What was intriguing
though was the way of walking of the quail. They rocked forward in a manner as
if there feet were glued to the ground and after a number of times of this they
would then take a step. The same would occur when they were reaching out to
feed on some vegetation-the head would rock towards it in the glued feet manner
before finally taking a piece of vegetaiton in the beak. I stood motionless
and the quails constantly checked out both sides of the bush, seemingly for
danger.
A very fortunate interlude!
Gary Wright
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