We live a couple blocks off of State
Street here in Murray, this is great for me, a person who uses a
power chair for mobility. If I've got the power I am able to just hop
in my chair and drive up to State Street and get coffee or pizza or
even do some light shopping at ShopKo which is across the street on
State. Last night Dianne made a great chicken burrito casserole. She
just thrown the casserole in the oven and I decided I needed some
form of cookies for later on in the evening when we might watch a few
videos. So off I went.
I wandered up the streets to State
Street, crossed the street in the new construction area and head off
to ShopKo. Saturday night at ShopKo is kind of sad, I think I counted
four staff at least at the store and now's probably two more bodies
than who is their shopping. I wandered up and down newly stocked
aisles of Halloween materials. Costumes, makeup and literally tons of
candy. Wandered over to the electronics section, dug through the bins
of $4.99 videos to see if there were any treasures I needed . I
found a couple of movies and a couple packages of cookies and headed
home. I cut through a neighborhood of post-World War II homes on the
way to my house, these are nice brick two and three-bedroom homes
with nice yards. Is a quiet neighborhood safe to drive your chair
down the middle of the road as I usually do. I was quite pleasantly
surprised when I turned the corner and I noticed a great number of
Quail Crossing the road. As I looked closer I noticed there were more
Quail than I usually see crossing the road , there is a huge number
of birds. We have a family or two of quail in our neighborhood but we
must have more predators in our neighborhood because I never see more
than three or four adult quail at a time. In the spring I can see
lots of small quail families but they must die off as the summer goes
on. These quail families seem to be huge. Whole clutches of eggs
must've hatched with just few casualties over the summer. As I
watched I grabbed my tablet and decided I would film as much as I
could. I took a couple minutes of film and was surprised to see my
end result. I enjoyed the footage of quail running back and forth but
I watched more and more I saw an actual battle going on between what
seemed to different coveys of quail. I was fascinated with this small
snippet of animal kingdom. I was also impressed with how came the two
coveys seem to be. I slowly motored by chair forward as far as I
could before the Quail would run but they never ran they just sort of
got out of the way. I wish I had a zoom feature on my tablet camera.
I uploaded the video to my Facebook account and I noticed that the
youtube quality of the video was was less than watching the raw
video.
The video was a nice ending to a nice
Saturday night. Glad I was there to see this small event of the
universe. Check it out, enjoy.
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