Just A Funny Little Story

History: We have quail running around all over Central Oregon in the summer and our family loves to see them. Our quail are known as California quail. They a beautiful, plump little critters with gray feathers and a black top knot. Both kids love to watch them run around in the little covies, the daddies, mammas and babies are a delight for all.

While we were in Nevada a couple of weeks ago Moriah spotted a quail as we were driving down the road. She was so delighted see one but she noticed a difference between the quail and Nevada and the ones here in Oregon. The quail in Nevada are not quite as plump and they have "red" heads. Her comment when she saw her first quail was, "look you guys, that quail has a sunburned head". We all giggled at that and from then on, when we saw quail in Nevada we referred to them as sunburned quail.