For the last several weeks, I have heard a California Quail calling from
tall Douglas-fir trees in my neighborhood in West Seattle. I wouldn't
expect to find a quail here or to hear one calling from 10-20m up in a fir
tree. I have never seen it well enough to have any idea of what it could be
and disregarded the quail hypothesis despite the proper call until my
neighbor Randall Willet took two photographs of the bird sitting on a roof.
It's never been seen or heard on the ground. It moves around the
neighborhood calling single note calls regularly, nearly always from tall
Douglas-fir.



I would guess this is an escaped hatched bird. I posted the photo on ebird.



Good birding,

Ed

Ed Swan

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