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A drift of Quail

A day of ups and downs today (Wednesday) as first bad news then possible good news and then actual good news!

After a brilliant discovery of a quail in the lower cereal fields around Roby Well Way in the morning if Tuesday I was a really pleased if a little surprised to hear that some other birders had connected with a (the?) quail on the other side if the hill. Anyway after several visits we begun to speculate on the possibilities of more than one bird. There was even speculation that sightings had overlapped - Dave and I had one calling at 3:30pm whilst other birders had connected around that time in a slightly different location .... Nothing concrete though, oh well off to bed.

Upon arriving at the last location of Tuesdays quail I was met by two local birders who seemed to be looking at the ground. As I got close they said we needn't bother listening or looking because this was on the deck
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  1. Andrew19 June 2015 at 10:54

    Shame, has a fox had it or some B*st*rds set a dog on it? Have they ever been seen/heard on Billinge hill before?

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