Gary,
a very interesting observation, but where was this "telegraph station"?
John Tongue
Hobart
On Saturday, February 17, 2007, at 03:34 PM, gary wright wrote:
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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