Cute As Buttons.....

The Lad went down the forest to chop up a tree he had dropped (manly, I know), and noticed two little quail on the track, calling to their mama. When he came back up about 3 hours later, they were still in the same place, and still calling for their mama, so he picked them up and bought them up to the house.

Later in the day, when The Lawrences were visiting, the kids all went down to pick berries and came back with another wee button (I think that's what a baby quail is called?), from the same place on the track. They are just gorgeous, like little bumblebees, and very friendly:


We took them to the Vets and got some chick raising mix, some wild bird seed and some insect substitute, and hoped and hoped they would survive. Check out their little mowhawks - awwww!: