King Louis vs A Scrub Jay

Today we saw a big king snake, we named him King Louis, in our back yard. it was being attacked by a Scrub Jay and his tail was hurt. He is currently living under a rock in our back yard and will probably stay there while he recovers from his injury. Interestingly he was trying to imitate a rattlesnake and rattled his tail. I got some pictures of Louis, his home, and the Scrub Jay that was bothering him.

Rose and Murray

I finnaly got some pictures of the quail in that nest in our rosemary. I named the male one Murray and the female Rose (RoseMurray). Heres is a picture of ____ and the rosemary that they nest in.

Ps: They seem to be fine even though my dad watered them.
Pss: sorry do to technical problems i can't get the pictures up. will try to get them up soon

Saturday April 26 2008

Today my dad when watering accidentally watered a bird's nest and the Quail went crazy. it took the north yard Quail 20 minutes to calm down the and the pair in the south yard are still at it right now. The 2 male Blue Jays from the upper and lower yard are still fighting (sort of) but it is just them chasing eachother. the females are just ignoring the fight and staying in the vine nest at the east (upper) and west (lower) nests.

The 8 birds have yet to be named and i'm not sure about there exact species but this is northbay california.

here is a generic Quail picture since i don't got a picture from our yard yet.

California quail (Callipepla californica)

© William H. Mullins, The National Audubon Society Collection/Photo Researchers