August 28, 2024

I am a male Northern Bobwhite

I'm short and plump and my tummy's white speckled.

My face is black and white striped,

And my wings have darker brown freckles.

I am a female Northern Bobwhite

2.5 million year old fossils of me exist

Cavemen would have used a stone tablet and chisel

To add me to their birding life list!

Location: Private residence, Blountston, FL

Sources: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Bobwhite/overview#

Photo and text © 2024 Dee Fairbanks Simpson

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August 25, 2022

I am known as a Northern Bobwhite

2.5 million year old fossils of me exist

The cavemen would have to use a stone tablet and chisel

To add me to their birding life list!

Special thanks to guest photographer, David Simpson.

Location: ⁨Las Cienegas National Conservation Area⁩, ⁨Elgin⁩, AZ

Sources: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Bobwhite/overview

Photo © 2022 David Simpson and text © 2022 Dee Fairbanks Simpson

July 28, 2021

I am a Northern Bobwhite

I'm usually not up this high, I like the ground

I practice ambisexual polygamy

Which is just as salacious as it sounds.

Special thanks to guest photographer and my sweetheart, David Simpson.

Location: Three Lakes Wildlife Management Area

Sources: https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Colinus_virginianus/

Photo © 2021 David Simpson and text © 2021 Dee Fairbanks Simpson

August 4, 2020

Location: Fellsmere, St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park

I am a male Northern Bobwhite

You can tell by my black eyestripe

If I were female my eyestripe would be lighter brown

In the southwest you might see a rare Masked Bobwhite.

Sources: Cornell Lab All About Birds - Northern Bobwhite

Photo and text © 2020 Dee Fairbanks Simpson