Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The World Qrazy Quail War III

Honestly, those qrazy quail are QRAZY!!

I don't know whether they are being a bit mean because they are going through moulting, or because it's cold and grey everyday - they have started another war!

Zebedee is being pecked by Rusty, and then by Dougal too. (Ermentrude the easy going quail has no problem with anybody whatsoever. What a good quail).

So the "slickness" of Zebedee after moulting, is no longer. She is looking raggedy again!
She often spends time on the roof of the house and checks whereabouts of Rusty and Dougal. 

So here is the new layout with new plants.

They can go up the bark-ramp to the roof of the wooden house. From there I put extra ramp to the polystyrene house, as an escape route. Water and food are available there, in case Zebedee really doesn't want to go down to eat or drink....so there are 3 feeding areas in this small house!

The new green plant is Azalea japonica. Later on I found out that Azelea is highly poisonous!! So I got rid of that quickly (because quail were munching on it!!!!). Now they have larger conifer plant and a couple of rosemaries. Hope they'll be ok....I'm worried now....I thought that Azelea were used to provide hiding place for game birds. Maybe it would've been ok, but I didn't want to risk it!

I put a pot of grass (that got killed long time ago) in front of the poly house, hoping that Zebedee can hop on and off gracefully,she needs to make a quick run.

....There she comes....
!!

!! water and food !!

Ta daaaaa!


It may be time to re-paint the quail decoy, Stevie the peacekeeper.....

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