July 16, 2005
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Our Wildlife Photo Gallery Opens!
After languishing for several weeks with its tempting (but non-functional!) photo indexes gracing the gallery's front door, the wildlife photo gallery is now ready for prime time! Please click here to begin your cyber stroll through our best wildlife images. We are in the process of developing articles and links for each species in our gallery, and these will be added bit by bit.
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The Weblog Loves Its New Home!
Typepad has proved to be an extra nice place to informally share with the studio's friends. We've been so tickled at the dear comments people have left. Now that the Gallery is properly built, I'm looking forward to more frequent visits to the weblog myself! LV
Please stop by to say hello. It is so wonderful to hear from friends, especially on these steamy summer days along Owl Creek.
EXTRA!! BABY QUAIL HATCH!
Congratulations to Our Proud New Parents,
Pearl and Rooster!
THIS IS PEARL IN HER 4" FLOWERPOT, WITH "LIGHT CHICK" PEEKING OUT
[our apologies for the low quality photo -- we were very anxious to include a 'baby picture' at press time]
Against all odds, our pretty and intrepid Pearl has hatched two gem-like little baby Button Quail just this morning! This baby is only hours old. The entire chick is no bigger than a marble, and the head that is peeking at you is about the size of the eraser on the end of a pencil. Since both the quail and I are new at this, we decided to let Pearl brood only two eggs, fully expecting that this first time would be a bust. But here we have two jewel-sized chicks! For the time being, we have designated them "Light Chick" and "Dark Chick", since we would rather wait until their gender is apparent to name them. Light Chick is stripey, like a red chicken baby, with pink feet and a pink beak. Dark Chick is very dark brown, with only the faintest stripe on the head, black feet, and a black beak.
I'm afraid we agitated everyone in the terrarium this morning as we replaced the bedding with paper towels -- better footing for the babies, and less confusion over what is bedding and what is food! Rooster has been an outstanding daddy bird, very protective and brave -- but we did separate him temporarily when his paternal enthusiasm caused him to peck the babies into their hiding places, for their own good, of course.
This is Pearl's first hatch, and we are so proud of her. LV
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We are still having some technical troubles with archiving, and hope to have them fixed very soon. All past issues of the NewsFEATHER will be available. LV
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