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Repurposed the brooder for winter for the button quail.

They seem to be enjoying it.

Maybe a little too much.

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Red-breasted “Vader” Pied male, stunning bird with good temperament as well.

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photo of a deviously round button quail that i took at magic wings in deerfield, MA. one of my favorite places :-)

currently missing the warm weather and new england. hopefully my future will lead me back there very soon.

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today i return with more fucked up animal taxonomy/phylogeny facts.........

these ^ are button quails (genus Turnix). they are small and plump and run around in the grass and eat seeds. they are very quail-like.

HOWEVER.

they are not quail. in fact, they are relatively close relatives of seagulls!

not only are they NOT quail, but the clade they belong to (neoaves) diverged from the clade quail belong to (galloanserae) during the cretaceous period! they last share a common ancestor with quail about 85 million years ago (the exact number is disputed but they definitely diverged before the k-pg extinction event, and likely quite long before that, so somewhere in the realm of abt 70-95 mya)!

in other words

these two birds (actual quail (king quail, Synoicus chinensis) on the left, button quail (madagascar buttonquail, Turnix nigricollis) on the right) last shared a common ancestor around 20 million years before tyrannosaurus rex even existed!!!!!!!!

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Since finishing my Highland Coo quilt I’ve felt like I’ve been in a slump. Then Thursday I went with my daughter and my husband to go pick up some feed for my daughter’s fowl. We stopped in Imlay city. To walk around. Wouldn’t you know it there were 2 quilt shops there right across the street from each other. I gave up buying fabric for Lent (😭😭😭). The Happy Little Quilt Shop had a line of fabric my friend adores, so I sent her photos and bought some for her.

They also had the cutest Corgi named Oliver.

The shop across the street was called the Pincushion. I found a pattern for a quilt that uses a panel in the at shop. I’ve had this particular panel for awhile just awaiting a pattern to bring it to life.

We ate lunch at the Hog Town Tavern in Melvin.

Yesterday, I spent the entire day with that same daughter making jam. Strawberry, cherry and mixed berry. We made 5 batches. It was HOT work but look how good it looks!