Quizzical Quentin

Quentin came into the house this morning and told me that he has decided that he wants to learn how to use a computer!  With the thought of new babies this summer, he wants to be able to pass on his skills to them too.....  So we started out by just looking at the keyboard:

He is in a very quizzical mood at the moment and wanted to jump right into his first lesson.

But we are starting from scratch - so I thought our first computer lesson would be learning the alphabet! You can see how well Quentin is doing - he has already found his favorite letter:

Any teachers out there who can offer a little quizzical Quentin Quail some advice or lesson plan?

Quentin's Back!

Yeah!  I've been hearing Quentin calling for the last couple of days - but now I've seen him too! He's back in the garden...running across the lawn and scouting out the place - hopefully for a nesting site.

Quentin - and all quails, hang out in "coveys' in the winter - large groups of up to 100 quail and we occasionally see the covey but they don't venture as a group into Birdland in those numbers.

So it's great to see Q back again!  What a happy fellow he is - strutting around, with his distinctive call...

And if you haven't met Quentin before, he is a very special California Quail.  If you click on the caption competition tab on the top of the Blogger blog or here -  Quentin's Adventures , you'll see a few things that Q and his pals got up to last year! or else search on this blog for "quentin" and you'll see even more! 

Welcome back Quentin. Hope we get to see Queenie around the garden too and that you find a nice place to build a nest......  Wonder what else you'll get up to this year....

Week 4 Caption Competition

This is the last week for the caption competition. All the quails have to leave home this week but they did get together for one last photo.

Hope you'll think of a caption for the photo and enter the competition. You can write the caption here in the comments section or else enter on facebook (Click on the NOTES tab).

The winner will be announced next Thursday and they win their very own Quentin Quail as a bookmark or necklace or....

Looking forward to your clever captions.

Here's the piccie:

New Quentin Quail necklace

The quails have just returned to our garden. First of all we spotted one, the next day two, ....and by the time we left for England there were four of them. I had just finished a new quail necklace - and you may recall from my previous blog posts that all the male quails we have I call Quentin and all the females are Queenie.


They are one of my favourite birds to watch and listen to. They run so fast and Quentin just has the most amusing calls.

So here is the latest necklace - Quentin in his running shoes. As you can see from the first photo, he doesn't like being on his chain all the time and is very happy to just stand around when he's not being worn - rather than hang around with the other necklaces!